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Roland W wrote:
For the very few times I still use graduated ND's, I have a Lee holder built up with just one slot, and then have the 105mm thread adapter on the front of it. I then can combine the adjustment of the grad ND with an adjustment of a 105mm glass coated polarizer, and do that without any hand holding. The combination does limit your field of view somewhat on wide lenses, but setting up the holder with just the one slot helps with that.
But for any shooting that does not require a grad ND, the best approach by far is high quality multicoated screw in glass filters. If you really need both solid ND and a polarizer, you can install them both. You get the best quality of filters, and never ever have any kind of issue related to light leakage causing flare or loss of contrast. You also spend less on the polarizer, because it is smaller than 105mm, plus of course you need the direct screw in polarizer anyway for when there is no solid ND required. The screw in polarizer is also standard as a multi coated item, while the 105mm size is harder to get as multi coated. And, as another bonus, with screw in filters that fit your lens, you can install your standard lens hood if you need it....Show more →
The lens hood is a good reason to stick with screw on filters that I hadn't thought about. However, if someone is considering/using the Lee system it is likely because they have lenses with different filter sizes. I used to hike/shoot landscape with as many as 4 different lens filter sizes. I'd rather have a Lee holder + adapter instead of step downs. But they are a viable option.
I have never seen any comparison's between 4x4 filters and screw on filters. Are the 4x4 ND filters really of lesser quality than the screw in filters? I found my 4x4 circular polarizer to be of superior quality (in terms of cutting reflections) to my mid-ish grade screw on CPL that I had. I'll admit that I never had a high end screw on filter to compare it with, but I imaged it would have kept up nicely...maybe not.
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