NiSi Cinema C5 Matte Box | Cinema Kit

Price: £599.00
(as of Jun 28, 2026 11:21:45 UTC – Details)


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. Paired with a set of NiSi?s cinema line of filters, there is no better choice to aid in producing the creative look that is desired in camera whilst managing tricky lighting conditions.
The C5 is built to last using Aluminium, Composite Plastic and Carbon Fibre to protect the filters it holds while keeping the weight down. It features a clamp-on style with adapter rings to suit lenses with filter threads and cinema lenses with a 95mm outer diameter. The deep filter depth blocks glare and places the filter as close to the lens as possible to ensure no vignetting on lenses down to 15mm full frame equivalent. The Carbon Fiber top flag also reduces glare from any overhead light source. The holder has slots in the side to reduce wind resistance, and the 350g weight makes it perfect for aerial platforms and gimbal use mounted on vehicles.
The C5 comes packaged in a pouch that will hold all accessories that the C5 comes with to make it ready to use on set with various lenses. The holder incorporates a top entry 4×4 slot for square filters in a tray or NiSi?s Rotating filters designed for the C5. The filter tray can hold 2mm or 4mm thick filters. There is a side entry 4×5.65 filter slot to suit all 4×5.65 filters from ND?s to Grads, Mist, Polarisers, and more.
The True Color Rotating C-PL for C5 is an all-new rotating C-PL designed to fit the C5 Holder. The Polarizing Filter reduces reflections and glare by filtering out light that has become polarized due to reflection from a non
The depth of the mat box is 26.5 mm to prevent sunlight or other direct light from causing glare and scattered light from all sides
NiSi matte box fits over various adapter rings for camera lenses with different dimensions (67 mm/72 mm/77 mm/82 mm), or directly attached to a Φ95 mm film lens, and vignetting is avoided when shooting with a focal length of 15 mm
This NiSi C5 matte box allows the simultaneous installation of 1 4 x 4 inch or 100 x 100 mm filter, true colour 1-5 aperture VND filter, true colour rotating PL and 1 4 x 5.65 inch plug-in filters with a thickness of up to 4 mm thickness that meet your multiple filter requirements
NiSi True Color technology is designed to reproduce the colours of the environment optimally colour-neutral for high colour fidelity and no “X-effect”
The Cineme package contains 1 x C5 matte box, 1 x 4 inch filter tray, 1 x 4 x 5.65 inch filter tray, 1 x true colour 1-5 aperture variable ND filter, 1 x true colour rotating PL filter, 1 x 4 x 5.65 inch ND16 filter, 1 x 4 x 5.65 inch Allure Black Mist 1/8 inch filter, 1/8 x C5 inch bag. and adapter rings (6 7 mm/72 mm/77 mm/82 mm)