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LarsNielsen

Guess this must be a more general question.

I am going to purchase a filter kit based on these wonderful square kits. You know, the ones you slide in front of the lens. Karl Taylor's videos is full of them and i kind of like the easyness of such a system. I'll see if i can find a system that fits on X-pro1 lenses and Canon lenses.

Question: What can you recommend? lenks?

kindanatural

It's not that easy and you have to be pretty dedicated and persistent to learn and get good results. You could go cheap with Cokin, but they will most likely have a magneta color cast. Lee have a rangefinder holder (RF-75 Filter Holder) that would fit a camera like the x100 or x-pro1 but remember that you would depend on the EVF or the LCD to compose and figure out your composition. http://www.leefilters.com/index.php/camera-directory/camera-dir-list/category/rf-75-holder

LarsNielsen

Thanks @kindanatural. It will be used mostly in landscape etc.. So i guess the LCD will do for focusing etc. I believe that I will not buy too cheap. Experience tells me that you always end up spending more money, when u find out that the cheap stuf sucks;-)

PurestBlue

I bought Cokin filters donkey's years ago - their P series - and I've had no problems at all, all through my OM fully manual years, my EOS autofocus film years, with my Leica Digilux 2, and now with my X-Pro1.

Over the years I've dropped most of the stuff, the only two I now carry are an ND grad and a polariser. Everything else can be done in software.

I believe that if you put tobacco grads in front of your lens to enhance a sunset then you'll persuade the WB sensor that it needs to correct a colour cast and you'll end up back where you were apart from a loss of light, so I think stuff like that should be done in software.

I'm thinking of adding two or three more ND filters so that I can get longer exposure times for water scenes. Other than that I think my filter collection is complete.

To sum up:

Cokin, though cheap, aren't that bad.
A filter kit needs only:
- Circular polarizer.
- ND grad(s)
- Grad(s)

Let the flaming commence! ;-)

(I have to admit, I cannot deny the quality of the Lee filters, and maybe, if you're going to print at, say, > 10 x 8, then perhaps the better quality filters will do less harm to the final image - I just can't afford a whole new filter set up at this time.)

LarsNielsen

Thanx for the freat reply @PurestBlue. Appreciate it. I'll have a look at the Cokin P. Problem with living in the western part of Denmark is that there are no photo-stores for miles, so i kind of have to rely on whatever info i can get on the allmighty internet. Basicall i shoot with X-pro1, X100 and Canon L series glass. So if there is a system outthere that fit's 'em all, that'l be the choice for me...

hdahl100

LarsNielsen said:
So if there is a system outthere that fit's 'em all, that'l be the choice for me...

Well it was a long time since I used Cokin P, but I think the beauty with the system is that you buy a set of filters and a thing with slots to put them in ("hållare" på svenska ;) ) and then you use different not so expensive rings to match the different lenses you have.
Please correct me someone if I'm wrong, but that is what I remember.

PurestBlue

hdahl100 said:

LarsNielsen said:
So if there is a system outthere that fit's 'em all, that'l be the choice for me...

Well it was a long time since I used Cokin P, but I think the beauty with the system is that you buy a set of filters and a thing with slots to put them in ("hållare" på svenska ;) ) and then you use different not so expensive rings to match the different lenses you have.
Please correct me someone if I'm wrong, but that is what I remember.

That's exactly right, and I think Lee filters are the same, only more expensive.
Link to Lee filters homepage
Link to Cokin filters UK page (in English, IIRC Cokin are French).

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