resting on a front end lens cap the tiffen company is a company in hauppauge new york u.s. which manufactures filters for photography and other professional film and photography related products . founded in 1945 by sol tiffen who brought his brothers leo and nat into the business the company has won several academy awards for technical achievements in filtration . 1 2 3 4 nat tiffen as well as ira tiffen each won technical achievement awards . the company s main competitors are harrison & harrison optical engineers inc. heliopan hoya schneider formatt and lee . tiffen also owns the steadicam domke lowel light davis & sanford listec stroboframe zing designs brands and product lines . nat tiffen of tiffen manufacturing corporation received an academy award for technical achievements in filtration . the commendation reads for the production of high quality durable laminated color filters for motion picture photography . materials of uniform color characteristics are implanted between layers of optical glass and bonded together under extremes of heat and pressure . the outer surfaces are ground and polished to specified close tolerances free of distortion and resistant to changes in temperature or humidity then bound with a protective metal ring . 4 5 the 1999 award was presented on march 4 2000 . references edit in loving memory of nat tiffen . 1984 57th academy awards . archived from the original on august 27 2007 . 1992 65th academy awards . archived from the original on august 27 2007 . a b academy of motion picture arts and sciences 1999 scientific & technical awards winners . archived from the original on august 21 2008 . 12 win academy awards in sci tech competition . archived from the original on june 11 2007 . external links edit tiffen us tiffen international this filmmaking article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tiffen & oldid 740591326 categories optical filters1938 establishments in new yorkislip town new yorkacademy award for technical achievement winnerscompanies based in suffolk county new yorkfilmmaking stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 01 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view