Star Filters (and other 70's-80's filters)

[Michael Totten]

I'm looking for filters that would give a circa 70's-80's-ish look. Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, Disco type look.

Beyond a star filter (which gives a sort of disco vibe) are there other filters anyone has used that fit the description.

Any suggestions or insights welcome... over the top or very affected looks welcome !

thanks in advance.

best,
Michael

 

[Brent J. Craig]

Pro-mists, especially the white ones are very 80's.

Go to your local rental house and ask if you can paw through their no-longer-used filter drawer!

 

[Michael Totten]

Pro-mists, especially the white ones are very 80's.

Go to your local rental house and ask if you can paw through their no-longer-used filter drawer!

Thanks Craig. Any LA houses that are known to have all sorts of crazy old filters ?

 

[Shane Betts]

Also, if you want real cheesy cheese, go to a long established camera shop (stills - think mom and pop stores) and ask them about Cokin. Cokin's market died so suddenly that many stores still have drawers full of weird filters they'll practically give you.

 

[Harry Clark]

Fog and Double Fog. Two very different effects but both popular in that era.
The definitive late 70's/ early 80's diffusion to me is Supa-Frost, if you can find a set that's not all scratched up (these were resin filters, not glass, and came with a special cleaning fluid) I seem to remember they came in both white and black... but I was a very young lad then and have a hard time remembering that far back...
Cheers,
Harry

 

[Brent J. Craig]

Thanks Craig. Any LA houses that are known to have all sorts of crazy old filters ?

Pretty much any rental house that has been in business for a while will have filters that trace the history of all the visual fads of the different eras.

Clairmont (at least here in Toronto) has a ridiculously huge collection of filters.

 

[Scott Schneider]

Did someone say filters?

 

[Michael Totten]

Did someone say filters?

JESUS CHR*ST !