Let’s take a look at five wildly affordable, readily available matte boxes that can help you capture better-looking images on a budget.
The NiSi C5 Matte box system is a lightweight, versatile, and minimally designed matte box to serve the modern cinematographer. Designed to work with a multitude of lenses and provide a mounting solution for NiSi’s Cinema line of filters along with other 4mm thick filters, The C5 is crafted to meet the needs of all creators. Paired with NiSi’s new 4×4 rotating circular filters, it can fit into the workflow of a run-and-gun shooter all the way up to a full-scale production.
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The Opteka MB360 Digital Matte Box is specially designed for all cameras with normal and wide angle lenses. The Opteka MB360 Digital Matte Box is easily detachable. It is very light in weight and is made up of strong material. The Opteka MB360 matte box is a simple and unique in design - used to reduce extra sunlight on the lens.
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Overview Add a compact matte box to your rig without much-added weight with the Lightweight Carbon Fiber Matte Box from SmallRig. The matte box suits small mirrorless or DSLR cameras and is made from durable but lightweight carbon fiber material. It accepts two 4 x 4 or 4 x 5.65 filters without the use of filter trays and includes four adapter rings to attach the matte box to the lens.
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