Newbie ask using ND filter with polarizer

External Since: Jan 29, 2005 Posts: 6

Sorry again, I have to create a new thread with the same subject, I
put the same subject so I hope it will go under the same title
thread...

Ok,
Me : Thank you for the info about the tripod. Let me know (and others
too) is it really necessary for using a split ND filter or I can just
do it with the camera hand held ? I can mount the camera on my
shoulder stock also, but I doubt that I would need that with the
small lens.

Bandicoot : Yah, I've read at another place that Cokin had a magenta
(and also green) tint in its D filter, so I'll check that at the
store. I will also take a 2 stop filter. I'll check the HiTech, Singh
Ray and Lee.

Thanks everybody !

External Since: Nov 29, 2004 Posts: 415

michel wrote:
> Sorry again, I have to create a new thread with the same subject, I
> put the same subject so I hope it will go under the same title
> thread...
>
> Ok,
> Me : Thank you for the info about the tripod. Let me know (and others
> too) is it really necessary for using a split ND filter or I can just
> do it with the camera hand held ? I can mount the camera on my
> shoulder stock also, but I doubt that I would need that with the
> small lens.
>
> Bandicoot : Yah, I've read at another place that Cokin had a magenta
> (and also green) tint in its D filter, so I'll check that at the
> store. I will also take a 2 stop filter. I'll check the HiTech, Singh
> Ray and Lee.
>
> Thanks everybody !

Under ideal conditions it should not make any difference with a gradient
ND. The proper exposure for the image should be the exposure through the
clear part. The rest of the image would have been over exposed without the
filter,. so the exposure time should not change. (note that your auto
exposure likely was under exposing part of the image to start with so it my
result in a little longer exposure than the over exposure you would have had
without it, but it should be consistent with a good normal exposure under
the same lighting conditions . Unless you needed a tripod without the
filter, you should not need one with the filter.

Using a tripod often improves the images however. It not only holds the
camera steady, resulting in sharper images, but it also tends to make you
think and focus more on what you are doing, which may well be its most
important contribution.

--
Joseph Meehan

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