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Filters

  • 19-12-2008 10:06pm
    #1
    BillieBob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Looking to get some filters mainly for landscapes (polarizing, graduated) to add to my new 450D. Should I go and get the cokin system as it will fit on other cameras (if I change in the future) or should I just get the ones that fit straight onto the lense. Plus how do filters affect using a lense hood (i.e. can you use some filters with a hood or never together?). Thanks for any advice.


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  • #2
    Kbeg3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Kbeg3


    Get the Cokin graduated ones anyway, and maybe some neutral density filters. The polariser doesn't really matter, I use one fitted to the lense. You can't use the graduated filters with a lens hood. Hope this helps:)


  • #3
    ThOnda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Some of the lens hoods have small trap-door to allow you rotating the polariser. Worth finding out.


  • #4
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    For graduated filters cokin or similar (There's some cheaper alternatives, kood spring to mind ) is probably the most versatile, as you can alter the position of the graduation. Everything else I'd go with screw in filters in a couple of standard sizes. All my filters are in 52mm (nikon's standard lens thread for smaller or slower lenses) and 77mm (lens thread for the fast nikon standard zooms) everything else, including my bronica system, gets step up rings to 77. It simplifies matters, and costs less. You definately don't want to buy more than 1 or 2 polarisers for example, in different thread sizes.

    And yes, using polarisers and hoods at the same time is a pain in the ass. I've spent a significant amount of time wiping fingerprints from my stupidly expensive slimline nikon polariser ...


  • #5
    Jambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Jambo


    BillieBob ,

    If you can stay well clear of the Cokin ND grad system , as they are far from been "Neutral " They produce a horrible majenta / purpilish colour cast , which simply negates the time you have spent chasing and composing your ideal shot.

    Sadly I made this mistake and I am hoping to change to the lee system as soon as stg drops a little more against the euro. Also you can also get a polarising system for the lee holder , which saves on buying a seperate polariser if you require them for each of your lenses.

    Also check out this previous thread on ND Grads


  • #6
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    really? ah balls, I just order a cokin kit, but the b and w filter kit and IR filter.... humm Lee....


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  • #7
    Ballyman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Ballyman


    Jambo wrote: »
    BillieBob ,

    If you can stay well clear of the Cokin ND grad system , as they are far from been "Neutral " They produce a horrible majenta / purpilish colour cast , which simply negates the time you have spent chasing and composing your ideal shot.

    I'll second that. It's not so bad when using ND's as you can change the WB to compensate afterwards but with Grads only half the image is affected and it's very difficult to fix afterwards.

    We're almost 1-1 with stg now so get the more expensive better filters.


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