HOYA SPARKLE 4x 82mm filter

Imagine sitting around a campfire with your friends on a warm spring evening, walking with your partner in a cold winter evening in a festive light park, or watching a rain drop on a flower petal after a summer storm. These moments create a special, intimate and reassuring feeling - a feeling that blinks like a warm spark.

We have created this filter to provide the opportunity to capture this warmth in our photos. The filter is designed to create a medium -sized rays of light from the light sources while gently highlighting them, displaying them as tiny sparks, and creating a warm, joyful atmosphere - just the feeling that lives within us. Get to know the Hoya Sparkle filter!

The sparkle effect
Traditional cross filters often create too long rays that can be crowded and overloaded. Instead of dominating the photo, Hoya Sparkle's goal is to create a delicious, cheerful mood by creating only medium-sized rays. Meanwhile, it also gently highlights light sources, creating a perfect balance between the power of the light source and the length of the rays.

The light source can be anything - stars, water reflected lights, or sunbeams through the foliage of trees.

Hoya Sparkle in Astrophoto

The Hoya Sparkle 4x filter is literally shining in the night sky photography. Turning the light of the brighter stars into 4 stars, the Sparkle series gives the images a stunning, magical effect to the images-setting a new standard in astrophoto.

Personalized photos
Choose your pattern!

The Sparkle series consists of two versions: Sparkle 4x and Sparkle 6x, creating a four- and six-point cross sample. Try both!

Soft effect
If there is no strong light source in the composition, Hoya Sparkle results in a soft effect in the picture, creating a dreamlike atmosphere. This is especially recommended for portrait, flower and landscape photography. To increase the softness, increase the ignition distance towards the end of the telephoto.

Rotatable first frame
By rotating the first frame, you can change the angle of the cross sample. This gives you the opportunity to always choose the perfect angle, so you can even customize your photos!

- The cross effect appears only for point light sources. Other types of light sources, such as the cylindrical light of the fluorescent lamps do not create the effect. For larger light sources, the cross effect may not appear clearly. In such cases, try to go farther from the disturbing light source and take another recording.
- The cross effect is affected by the power of the light source, the focal length and the compartment value.
- If the image is too dark when photographing night lighting, try to increase the exposure compensation. If it's too clear, reduce exposure compensation.
- The cross strips are more visible before the dark background. Focusing on the light source also results in a sharper cross effect.
- In some situations, a mesh flashes can occur (in the case of strong light sources and backlit situations).
- Increasing the focal length towards the telephoto lens increases the soft effect.
- The strips of light may be distorted at a large angle.
- If you reduce the compartment opening to around 22, the light strips may become dashed.
- Under certain circumstances, Hoya Sparkle can create a mesh pattern in the blurred areas in the picture.