Have had so much luck with all my K&F filters for my few lens great additions for the price.

The best way to create soft lighting without needing special equipment. Now it is noticable that on stronger lenses you will get skin softening too. So your images will be less sharp. I would recommend a soft or medium strenght at best. Unless thats what you want.

It does create a unique look, and I don't think it is something that could be easily done in post-processing. It is thin and lightweight and easily fits in my filter pouch. With that said, I don't think that this will see much use for me. It's just not the kind of effect I will need often. I'm saying that as a photographer. If you are filming video, I think there are probably more valid use cases for this.

Has the same look and feel of a traditional promist filter, and much like K&F Concept's other filters, it does a fantastic job of that without any noticeable color cast or tinting, and without breaking the bank.

Nice diffusion/halation effect on and around highlights, doesn’t break the bank when searching for a diffusion filter like tiffen does. Excellent build quality. Definitely recommend this filter

Works as expected. Cleaning cloth is a nice bonus. Probably a niche item for some, I'd say it depends on taste to whether it works for your needs. Sometimes it's neat, other times I don't care for it but it's another tool in your bag to experiment with.

Great budget alternative to the tiffin filters. I would recommend these over the tiffin!

This K&F Concept 1/2 black diffusion (aka. black mist) filter works just as described. Diffusion filters are used to soften the image and will also enhance light (and create glow) giving an overall dreamy effect... and a lot of people like them for video recording. However 1/2 strength is probably a bit much in most situations. 1/8 preferably, or 1/4 will give a more subtle effect and is what most people actually use. If you are looking for a stronger look then this 1/2 is perfect (see photos). There is a 1 (full) which would be too extreme I would imagine. I have never had any issues with any K&F Concept products and this is another quality purchase that I can easily recommend.

I have purchased a number of K&F filters and have always been satisfied with quality and results…

I absolutely love this filter! I was looking for something to soften up my pictures without breaking the bank and I came across this filter (43mm) for around 17 dollars after tax. It is super small and discrete to the point that I forget that it is on my lens half of the time.

I decided to get the 1/8 black diffusion filter rather than the 1/4, 1/2 or the 1/1 because I was looking for just a subtle glow and this thing definitely delivers. For me it is perfect, but for others the 1/8 may be TOO subtle in regular conditions. I will say however that the bloom effect really shows through when a scene has a lot of direct light or very bright highlights. I also chose the 1/8 version because I wanted a slight artistic flare to my photos without feeling too intentional with the bloom. I will also mention that I don't have the ability to determine the filter's sharpness and while I suspect that it maybe lowers the sharpness of the overall picture by a tiny minuscule bit, for many of the pictures that I took I was more than happy with the quality that it produced. If you are concerned about the sharpness I would probably look into the Tiffen filters, but even with that, those filters are 6x the price of this one.

If you are a starting out experimenting with filters and do not want to spend too much money, this is the one. There is so much fun and artistic capability that can be achieved with this filter that I keep it on my 23mm all of the time. Buy this filter!

I included two pictures of a cyclops action figure and you can really see the effect on the flash light at the bottom left of the picture as well as the overall bloom on the figure itself. I also included a few other shots with very bright highlights.