The Tiffen Company has introduced its latest innovation in filter design: the Magnetic Control System (MCS). This elegantly simple system uses magnetic power to quickly and securely attach genuine Tiffen filters to lens fronts, streamlining the process for broadcast engineers and filmmakers.
Hauppauge, NY—June 20, 2024
Tiffen’s Magnetic Control System was developed to eliminate the hassle of threading filters on and off, while maintaining a safe and positive lock. MCS makes installation and removal lightning-fast. Thanks to their extremely strong magnetic force, filters stay locked in position even during demanding shooting situations. Then they remove from the optic as needed without modification to the native lens. The MCS Adapter can stay on indefinitely or detach instantly by gripping the knurled edge and gently rotating.
Mounting method
Tiffen’s new MCS Adapter easily rotates on to the lens’ front threads. Once in place, the lens instantly receives any Tiffen MCS precision glass filter, including: ND, Polas, Color, Effects, and the extensive array of diffusion—including Black Fog, Night Fog, Black Pro-Mist, Antique Black Pearlescent, Antique Pearlescent, Antique Satin, Smoque, Glimmerglass, and many more. Each filter comes with front and rear magnetic protector caps and a magnetic adapter of the filter size.
All MCS filters are easily identified due to their matte black finish, distinctive blue ring, and handy raised edge. Each MCS filter includes a matching lens cap that instantly attaches to the filter front or directly fits to the lens via the MCS magnetic lock.
Diameter
MCS Filters come in 58mm, 77mm, and 82mm with available Step-up MCS Magnetic Adapters to accommodate other sizes.
Production
Like the rest of Tiffen’s Emmy & Academy Award-winning filters, Magnetic Filters are crafted in the USA with optical grade glass. To promote long life and image clarity, only Tiffen filters are manufactured using the exclusive Colorcore Technology® process that laminates the filter substrate between two parallel elements of optical glass, then grinds and polishes them to a precise tolerance of 1/10,000th of an inch flatness. Tiffen Motion Picture Filters are made in the USA and come with a 10 Year Warranty.
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The Tiffen Company
The Tiffen Company is a leading American manufacturer of imaging accessories for the consumer/professional imaging, Motion Picture & Television and broadcast industries.
The company was originally founded by Sol Tiffen in 1938 and later joined by two of his brothers Leo and Nat. At the time, the company sold an array of camera accessories for amateur and professional photographers such as filters, adapter rings and lens accessories. However, the optical filters were made by other companies and were inconsistent in color and quality. This caught Nat’s attention, and after years of research and development, Tiffen would bring their first filters to the market. This was not just another filter, but a major breakthrough for filter technology.
In 1951, Tiffen’s new proprietary, ColorCore technology was used to manufacture Tiffen glass filters. Over the years the company was involved in manufacturing a wide array of filter accessories with Sol managing the consumer photography business, Leo overseeing the company’s entrance into the audio-visual market and Nat managing manufacturing and the motion picture and television business.
Today, Tiffen Filters are still manufactured in their Hauppauge, Long Island factory with additional facilities in Burbank, California and at the Pinewood Studios outside of London, England.
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