Personally I am not a fan of cheap filters. They tend to introduce colour casts and soften our expensive lenses. For video I recommend to buy one very high quality ND filter (2 to 5 stops is what I use for my typical shooting conditions) to fit the largest front element you anticipate using and buy stepdown rings for your smaller lenses.
Thoughts? I like the idea of a set that works between filters in combination and has an organizer to keep things safe.
Downside, its 82mm out of the box so you have to buy 77mm separate to mount them up.
Just diving into video so im completely fresh and my glass is empty.
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Use would be with 24-70 and 70-200
Reviews on the Amaz and BH indicate several problems in addition the ones above. It's too expensive to be so problematic, but too cheap to be really good. Spend more and get a better product, not one like a reviewer said you need to send to China to have one element replaced. And after a few years that company may no longer exist anyway. Find a brand with a longer track record and don't believe all the U-Tubers.
Which VND filters in the 2-5 stop range have FM users found to be "a better product" and why?
I compared Schneider, B+W, Tiffen, and ended up with a "K&F Concept Variable PRO" because it was used and therefore fairly cheap, and seemed to have the same color cast (warm + green) as all the others I tried.
Keith B. wrote:
Which VND filters in the 2-5 stop range have FM users found to be "a better product" and why?
I compared Schneider, B+W, Tiffen, and ended up with a "K&F Concept Variable PRO" because it was used and therefore fairly cheap, and seemed to have the same color cast (warm + green) as all the others I tried.
No colour cast or image degradation that I can detect.
Another suggestion is to shoot 12 bit raw SDR. Since in raw the gamma curve is just meta data, a log curve, if desired, can be applied in edit. The 3 stops you get back from shooting SDR often negates the need for ND. Unless you are shooting in very bright light.
