--- product_id: 5593913 title: "Hoya 52mm HMC NDX400 Screw-in Filter" brand: "hoya" price: "AR$95333" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/5593913-hoya-52mm-hmc-ndx400-screw-in-filter store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Reduces light by 9 f-stops Maintains color balance Creates silky smooth water effects Hoya 52mm HMC NDX400 Screw-in Filter **Brand:** hoya **Price:** AR$95333 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“Έ Unleash Your Creativity with Every Click! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Hoya 52mm HMC NDX400 Screw-in Filter by hoya - **How much does it cost?** AR$95333 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/5593913-hoya-52mm-hmc-ndx400-screw-in-filter) ## Best For - hoya enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted hoya brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Capture the Unseen:** Transform daylight into a canvas of motion with super slow shutter speeds. - β€’ **Flare-Free Brilliance:** Experience enhanced light transmission with HMC multicoating. - β€’ **Master the Art of Movement:** Render moving subjects invisible for breathtaking photography. - β€’ **Elevate Your Depth of Field:** Achieve stunning subject isolation with wider apertures. - β€’ **Professional Quality, Every Time:** Designed for photographers who demand excellence in every shot. ## Overview The Hoya 52mm HMC NDX400 Screw-in Filter is a professional-grade filter that reduces light entering the camera by 9 f-stops, allowing photographers to achieve stunning slow shutter effects even in bright daylight. Its advanced multicoating technology minimizes ghosting and flare, ensuring vibrant color reproduction and clarity. Perfect for capturing dynamic scenes like waterfalls or isolating subjects with a beautifully blurred background. ## Description These filters offer both amateur and professional photographers HOYA's famous quality at reasonable prices. They have coatings applied to both surfaces to suppress reflection and increase light transmission.The Hoya Multi-Coated Neutral Density (ND) Filter is an essential accessory for any photographer's camera bag. ND filters reduce the amount of visible light that enters the lens, allowing the user to utilise wider apertures or slower shutter speeds, particularly in bright conditions. ND filters work especially well for portraits by allowing the photographer to reduce the depth of field, producing pleasant background blur while keeping the subject in sharp focus. These filters are also often used to emphasize movement by permitting slow shutter speeds in bright light, giving life to photos that would otherwise look frozen in time.Photographing solar eclipses and ultra-bright light sources can be extremely dangerous. This filter reduces light values by 9 stops to less than 1/500th of its original intensity and allows safe photography. It can also be used to achieve super slow shutter speeds in daylight to render moving subjects invisible. ## Features - Reduces the amount of light to the camera sensor by 9 f-stops without effecting colour balance - Can be used to achieve super slow shutter speeds in daylight to render moving subjects invisible - Enables slow shutter speeds to be used to record movement in subjects such as waterfalls, providing a silky smooth effect to flowing water - Decreases depth of field by allowing wider apertures to be used, helping to separate subjects from their background - Hard Coated' HMC Multicoating process suppresses ghosting, flare and reflections, and increases light transmission ## Images ![Hoya 52mm HMC NDX400 Screw-in Filter - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T2/images/I/61BoSrxjyVL.jpg) ![Hoya 52mm HMC NDX400 Screw-in Filter - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T2/images/I/61avVOI-7GL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great option!! *by J***D on Reviewed in the United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ on October 20, 2013* This is a great option when looking into long stop neutral density filter. The variable neutral density filters are great but expensive. A 77mm variable ND filter of decent quality would be something like Tiffen, which is about $150. The other fixed ND filter options are the B&W 3.0 filter which gives you 10 stops and goes for $100ish and ofcourse the Lee Big Stopper which goes for around $200-250 for the kit, but also provides up to 10 stops of light restriction. This Hoya, offer 9 stops which is great and for $70 is a great option. I recently used it at Niagara Falls and was more than happy with the results. Professional grade construction. My only issue, which knocks off 1 star from my rating would be cleaning the damn thing. At Niagara I got some small water droplets on the filter, which did not affect the images at all, but when I got home and attempted to clean it, I noticed that no matter what I tried, that I could not get it looking like it did fresh out the package. I have read reviews on it and apparently this problem is something that a lot of people complain about. The pictures still come out great despite note being 100% clean, but like most of us photographers that like to keep things 100% clean, it sort of annoying. Overall a great item and I would highly recommend it if you want a high stop light reducing ND filter for the price. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Take your photography to the next level *by 1***V on Reviewed in the United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ on July 3, 2014* The filter is sold by Hoya, but on buying it you would realize its made by Tokina - the makers of market leading wide angle lenses.It's very well built, and does the job its meant to do - cut the light by 9 stops.You will need a tripod or a stable surface to take pictures, as this tends to make the exposures lengthy.I have tried this filter to take pictures of moving clouds as background for landscapes, and this spells magic on the pictures.I had seen many cheap ND filters in market, but when you buy a filter for your expensive lenses, better buy the best ones.The gradation of this filter is very dark, hence one needs to focus the image before putting this on the lens.If you want dreamy pictures of sunset, water falls, fast cars, etc, I would recommend buying 2-3 stops ND filters because those filters can be used handheld and are ideal for fast moving objects.The 9-10 stops filter are special purpose filters, which should be used only on special occasions. Example - Very bright day, Subject - Windmill, Background - farm and fluffy clouds. ND400 is perfect to capture the movement of windmill and the clouds.Its a little difficult to clean if you get fingerprints or some dust on it. Try to blow air and wipe it with microfibre cloth. This prevents scratching its surface.Highly recommend the product for landscape enthusiasts. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Good but not great *by M***E on Reviewed in the United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ on March 29, 2013* I would recommend this filter for any amateur photographers that want to experiment with long day exposures. If you are going to rely on this filter for important shots I would get a better filter. The build feels a little cheap and I wouldn't trust it to last a long time. If the glass gets dirty, for example you get a finger print on it, it is difficult to clean, but this is probably the case for most multi-coated filters. There is a green color cast but it is easily corrected. Just make sure to shoot in RAW. Vignetting is very noticeable. The sides of the images are quite a bit darker. The filter doesn't seem to degrade the sharpness of the image. If you view the images at 100% you may see slight softness but it isn't a problem at all. Another problem that I saw when I researched this filter was a purple color cast on the top half of the image that also significantly reduced contrast. I had this happen on a couple images and I realized it was because the sun was at my back and light was leaking through the viewfinder. If you cover the viewfinder when you take long exposures with the sun at your back you will prevent this problem. If the light leak in the viewfinder is the problem, then it would seem that any neutral density filter you buy would create the same problem. If I lost or broke this filter I don't know if I would buy it again. It does its job and its the cheapest of its kind but it has vignetting and a cheap build. I would probably buy this filter again just because there aren't many other choices and it is much cheaper than anything else. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/5593913-hoya-52mm-hmc-ndx400-screw-in-filter](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/5593913-hoya-52mm-hmc-ndx400-screw-in-filter) --- *Product available on Desertcart Argentina* *Store origin: AR* *Last updated: 2026-08-20*