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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Chris13 on March 10, 2009, 09:34:50 am
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Hello
I plan to by a neutral density filter but I wonder if 3 stops would be enough compared to 4 stops for long eposure.
I primarily shoot at sunrise or sunset.
Thank you
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Hello
I plan to by a neutral density filter but I wonder if 3 stops would be enough compared to 4 stops for long eposure.
I primarily shoot at sunrise or sunset.
Thank you
it really all depends on what you are shooting, the lighting, and what you want to do with it. I do a lot of long exposures of water in my kit I carry everything from a 3 stop to a 10 stop ND filters. If you can only get one right now I would get the deepest one you can get
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It is impossible to answer if 3 or 4 stops will be enough if we don't know what you want to achieve with the filter.
The one thing I can say is that 1 stop can never be a difference you can compensate that with a smaller aperture and I don't think the DOF or diffraction effect will be dramatic as long as it is just 1 stop. If you have a 3 stops ND and you are at F8 when 3 stops is not enough you can move to F11 and you have your 4 stops...
I use a ND400 9 (almost) stops filter and many times stack it with a ND8 for 12 stops so my initial guess is that 3 stops won't be enough. YMMV.
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Tnahk you for your answers.
It is mainly for long exposure of water and grass.
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For water it depends if you want a sily or foamy look. You can get sily water with 4 secs exposures, you need longer exposures and adequate water movement for foamy effects.
For grass you need strong winds or very long exposures to get a smooth effect instead of the nasty out-of-focus look that grass has with a moderate exposure.
Unless you are shooting in dim light 4 exposures won't be enough. (My guess)
Luigi
Tnahk you for your answers.
It is mainly for long exposure of water and grass.
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Reading this thread got me thinking that while digital cameras can now do ISO 25600, I still long for ISO 25 (Kodachrome) at times...
Mike.
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Hello
I plan to by a neutral density filter but I wonder if 3 stops would be enough compared to 4 stops for long eposure.
I primarily shoot at sunrise or sunset.
Thank you
Or ty this if ya got the dough for them.
http://www.singh-ray.com/varind.html (http://www.singh-ray.com/varind.html) or this with the ND
http://www.singh-ray.com/morslo.html (http://www.singh-ray.com/morslo.html)
I love mine, but big bucks.I have the 77 mm one's for my Canon L glass.
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Or ty this if ya got the dough for them.
http://www.singh-ray.com/varind.html (http://www.singh-ray.com/varind.html) or this with the ND
Is this just a pair of polarizers mounted in the same ring? Can you tell if it polarizes or not?
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I like the Singh-Ray VariND too - not sure, but I suspect it is a pair of polarizers.
A couple of shots I've taken with mine here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephent/tags/varind/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephent/tags/varind/)
Lots more info on the Singh-Ray blog: http://singhray.blogspot.com/search/label/Vari-ND (http://singhray.blogspot.com/search/label/Vari-ND)
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Reading this thread got me thinking that while digital cameras can now do ISO 25600, I still long for ISO 25 (Kodachrome) at times...
Mike.
Same here - ISO25 without a sacrifice in dynamic range would be excellent.
As to ND filters - I always take as a minimum a 3 stop, 2 stop and 1 stop grad ND with me on landscape shoots - sometimes I will stack them for more stops.
Using the large LEE filters on 35mm means they can be used as grads or as full ND's - avoids having to buy twice.
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Reading this thread got me thinking that while digital cameras can now do ISO 25600
They cannot. Any ISO over ISO3200 is software based, just like ISO50.
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Reading this thread got me thinking that while digital cameras can now do ISO 25600, I still long for ISO 25 (Kodachrome) at times...
Mike.
me too
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there is a good Singh Ray vari ND filter (http://www.singh-ray.com/varind.html) 77 or 82 mm