COKIN, ALMOST 40 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS INNOVATION The COKIN story is first and foremost the story of a man, its founder Jean Coquin, a renowned French photographer who worked for the best-known brands and whose career was marked by numerous innovations that revolutionized the world of photography. It is also the story of a team that has never ceased to keep his vision alive, anticipating the desires of photographers and videographers around the world. The creation of the Z-PRO system is the resulting outcome.
Andrew Kime Llyn Trawsfynydd, Snowdonia, Northern Wales B orn in 1960, Andrew Kime discovered his passion for landscape photography at the age of 7, a passion that has been with him ever since. Today, he travels frequently but appreciates above all his native Wales, where he lives in the heart of Snowdonia National Park. This region, made up of lakes, peat bogs, deep forests and still-wild coasts, naturally offers him numerous opportunities to satisfy his passion.
Daryl Benson Tonquin Valley, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada D 4 aryl Benson was born, raised, and currently lives in Alberta, Canada, surrounded on one side by 1,000 kilometers of wild prairies and, on the other, the highest summits of the Canadian Rockies. He has been a renowned landscape photographer for more than 25 years.
Daryl Benson Devil’s Marbles, Continental Desert, Australia The day began radiantly and extremely hot, as always in the heart of the Australian desert. A little after breakfast the cirrus clouds began to form, stretching out rapidly on the horizon. Oriented 90° in relation to the sun, the polarizing filter allowed me to enhance the blue of the sky and to bring out the clouds. The isolated Eucalyptus detaches itself perfectly from the immensity of its surroundings.
Andrew Kime Llyn Tecwyn Isaf, Snowdonia, Northern Wales Peaceful autumn evening, on the edge of a pond... The wise choice of a neutral grey graduated filter allowed on the one hand, the balancing of the delicately setting sun... the last touch of light on the trees, and on the other hand, the grass in the foreground... situated in the shade. The addition of a warm-toned filter (81B) subtly reinforces the autumnal tints.
Andrew Kime Harlech Dunes, Snowdonia, Northern Wales A beautiful landscape, but a real nightmare for film or a digital sensor! First an ND8 neutral grey filter – giving 3 f/stops of light reduction – allows you to preserve detail in the sky and the background; a second ND2 neutral grey filter, less dense (1 stop), reduces the intensity of the light from the tuft of grass in the foreground, and, finally, a warm-tone filter (81B) emphasizes the hues of the warm evening light.
Andrew Kime Barmouth, Snowdonia, Northern Wales Beach at Sunset, descending tide. The exposure was calculated for the highlights to make the play of shadow and light on this beach stand out. No need here for graduated filters... The hues of the setting sun are discretely sublimated through the use of a warm-tone filter. Andrew Kime demonstrates here that one can achieve results of great quality with very little means.
Ariel Greco Elodie, Château de Villiers-le-Mahieu, February 2006 A riel Greco is a case apart in the world of fashion photography. Born in New York, this American divides his time between the U.S. and Paris, where he has lived for over a decade after having pursued his studies in Art Theory at UC Berkeley. He manages two simultaneous careers: Art Director and Fashion Photographer.
THE 7 STRONG POINTS OF THE Z-PRO SYSTEM 4 1 A UNIQUE POLARIZING FILTER UNIVERSAL & TIMELESS THE Z-PRO IS THE LOGICAL CHOICE FILM – DIGITAL – HD VIDEO The size of the Z-PRO filter-holder covers all current formats: 35 mm SLR, medium format, large format, and panoramic; digital backs; HD video cameras; for Cinema, both 16 or 35 mm film cameras. The system is adaptable to all lenses up to 96 mm in diameter.
THE FILTER-HOLDER 10 APPLICATIONS– SLOTS – ASSEMBLY – USES – INSERTION OF FILTERS standard configuration for 3 filters You can set the Z-PRO filter- holder as you see fit, in function of the thickness of the filters used and the number of filters employed simultaneously. Quick to set up and easy to use, COKIN Z-PRO filter-holder is conceived to facilitate the work of those who have made the judicious choice of filtering directly, while shooting.
Lee Frost Dunstanburgh Castle, Nortumberland, Great Britain B 20 orn in 1966 near Barnsley, in Southern Yorkshire (UK), Lee Frost has been enthralled with landscape photography from his earliest years. Since his first Zenith® camera, he has used an impressive array of equipment in all formats, from 35 mm to 6 x 17’’ panoramic, always multiplying his creative experiences with the same passion and keen artistic sense.
POLARIZING FILTERS ADAPTER RINGS THREADED OR BAYONET RINGS – ULTRA THIN – UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY THREAD The COKIN Z-PRO System offers a variety of models of adapter rings, available in a set (opposite). Manufactured in France out of machined aluminum and black anodized to prevent reflections, these non-deformable rings are, with the exception of the Ø 95 and 96 mm, remarkably compact. Their rapid action threading is designed to not damage the threading of your lenses.
ACCESSORIES MODULAR – FLEXIBLE – MAXIMUM PROTECTION Certain seemingly unimportant accessories are absolutely necessary for the everyday usage of filters, including accessories relating to their transport and cleaning. INDIVIDUAL SLEEVE– MULTI-STORAGE POUCH – CLEANING CLOTH When shooting images, no matter what the medium in question – photo, video or cinema – flare remains a constant concern. Cameramen have long since mastered the problem with matte boxes, “flags”, and other light shading devices...
FILTERS LENS QUALITY – BENEFITS OF SQUARE FILTERING: FOR WHO, WHY? – RANGE AS TECHNICAL AS IT IS CREATIVE – 2 STARTER KITS BUILDING a line of professional filters is not an easy thing to do. Despite the constant need for quality, it is necessary to cover the gamut of user needs, whether technical or creative.
Does what Photoshop® can not and will not do ! FILTERS ALSO IN DIGITAL – BETTER THAN PHOTOSHOP® — VIDEO AND BROADCAST – EVERYDAY FILTERING Perfectly up-to-date for digital photography It is a common misconception that in digital photography there is no longer a need for filters because “one can do it all with Photoshop®.
NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTERS UNIFORM – GRADUATED SHADING – NEUTRALITY – TRANSITION – ADJUSTMENT DESIGNED so that absolutely no colour from the entire visible spectrum prevails, the COKIN® neutral density filters can be used in many different contexts, depending on which type is used : uniform shading (square) or graduated shading (rectangular). Here is a type of image impossible to achieve without ND Gradual filters.
COLOURED GRADUATED FILTERS BLUE – TOBACCO – SUNSET WHEN the sky is not as blue as one wishes, the setting sun not as radiant, or if one wishes to add a touch of personal colour, the coloured graduated filters are the right answer. They darken one part of the image (most often the upper part) by adding the appropriate tint, blue, tobacco, or “sunset”. The gradual blue filters are available in 5 models for optimal adjustment of the correction level desired.
FILTERS FOR LIGHT BALANCE CORRECTION AND COLOUR-CONVERSION SERIES 80 – 82 – 81 – 85 WARM-TONE CORRECTION FILTERS SÉRIES 81 As everyone knows, the colour warmth of daylight constantly varies, from dawn to dusk. Our eyes do not notice this, thanks to an automatic phenomenon of adaptation. It is the same with artificial light, which varies considerably according to the emitting source – electronic flash or tungsten lamp, for example.
CYAN – MAGENTA – YELLOW SERIES CONTRARY to the 80 Series filters (blue or orange) which are designed to rectify prevailing chromatic tints coming from the differences in colour temperature between the film and that of the light source(s), the colour compensating filters (cyan, magenta and yellow) correct dominant monochromatic colours, linked to various causes, from intrusive reflections/glare/undesired rays to reciprocity failure.
SPECIAL FILTERS ULTRA VIOLET – FLUO – INFRARED UV & SKYLIGHT FILTERS These PR filters are in fact ultraviolet blockers, light rays whose wavelength is below 400 nm and to which our eyes are not at all (or just barely) sensitive. But that significantly affects films as well as photo or video sensors. It results in a characteristic prevailing blue, particularly evident at high altitudes – where the UV rays are very intense – at sea level, and in aerial photography.
DIFFUSION FILTERS DIFFUSERS – PASTELS – NET When one wishes to bring a romantic or mysterious atmosphere to an image, to put an often disappointing reality in its best light, or to give the image a visibly painterly appearance, every image creator must need, at one time or another, a diffusion filter whose effect is either barely perceivable, or that lends a somewhat dreamlike form to the image. In this area, the choices COKIN offers are as vast as its worldwide reputation.
THE CENTER-SPOT FILTERS THE WARM DIFFUSER FILTERS SUNSOFT — SOFTWARM — DIFFUSER WARM UNCOLORED – GREY – OVAL WHEN one wants to both often an image and make it warmer, the Z-PRO line offers three filters suited to the task: the warm diffusers. Their double effect lends itself to numerous applications: portraits, weddings, beauty photos, still lifes, landscapes, etc.
FILTERS FOR BLACK & WHITE AND SEPIA PHOTOGRAPHY COKIN WATCHWORDS: SERVICE & QUALITY THE SPECTRAL sensitivity of panchromatic black & white films deviates from that of the human eye, especially in artificial light. The black & white specific filters allow for the differentiation of colors translated into excessively close nuances of grey. As for the sepia filters, they are the answer for those wishing to recreate the images from times past.