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Not sure if this would be more appropriate to post this in the landscape forum? Anyway.

I ordered a 150mm ND8 lee filter last week, and finally had some time to play with it tonight. I did not buy the lee holder, seriously, $400?? screw that, some gaffer tape will do just as good. My plan was simple, wait for the sun to go away, and make some awsome 2-3min exposures near the water with alot of rocks.

But I had one big problem, I dont have a remote release but I do have some pocketwizard plusiii and the cable to fire the camera. As long as I keep the test button pressed (in bulb mode) I can make exposures as long as I want, or at least as long I can keep that damn button pressed. It was easy to do it in my house, but with hundreds of mosquitos ?!? forget it. Time to buy a proper remote (and some anti mosquitos stuff)

And the only good shot I have left, is a test shot while waiting for the sun to go down, so its not even super slow, only 8". Its not bad, but not what I wanted, anyway, hope you enjoy !



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I have one of those too. Looks a lot more fragile than the Nikon remote corded release I bought 20 years ago, but then I paid $50 for that.
 
As far as neutral density filters go, the ND8 only cuts your exposure by 3 stops which is not a lot if you are trying to do long exposures, especially in conditions like you were doing. Which is probably why you ended up at f22 trying to cut your exposure even more. The problem with f22 is that your image is going to get too soft from diffraction.

By comparison, the Hoya NDx400 cuts your exposure by 9 stops which lets you do long exposures in daylight conditions. The problem is you can't attach one of these to your 14-24 :-)
 
Have a look at the Progrey g150x holder for $195, and the hitech irnd 10 stop filter.
 
RFN-4s Wireless Remote Shutter Release

Set the camera to Bulb.

If using Mup, press and release the remote's release button to raise the mirror.

Press and hold the remote release button for about three seconds. An LED on the camera unit will indicate the shutter is open.

Release the button on the remote. Shutter stays open.

Press and release the remote button again and the shutter closes.
 
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As far as neutral density filters go, the ND8 only cuts your exposure by 3 stops which is not a lot if you are trying to do long exposures, especially in conditions like you were doing. Which is probably why you ended up at f22 trying to cut your exposure even more. The problem with f22 is that your image is going to get too soft from diffraction.

By comparison, the Hoya NDx400 cuts your exposure by 9 stops which lets you do long exposures in daylight conditions. The problem is you can't attach one of these to your 14-24 :-)
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PNad said:
hakka said:
PNad said:
hakka said:
Have a look at the Progrey g150x holder for $195, and the hitech irnd 10 stop filter.

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Never heard of hitech, I thought hoya, lee, shing ray and B+W were the only reliable filter makes?
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Hitech are pretty good. I'd rate them a bit behind Lee for grads and ND filters, but in the case of the 10 stop filters the prostop irnd is better than my Lee bigstopper as far as colour cast goes.

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Not sure I want to invest into a $600+ filter, are the normal, no IF, that bad? Can you correct most of the color cast in Lr/PS? BH actually have the non IF on sale right now:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/834061-REG/Hitech_HT165ND3_0_6_5_x_6_5_Neutral.html

$150 is a pretty awsome, deal. I paid $130 for my lee 3stop, and this one is 1.5inch bigger so I could even stack 2-3 without vignetting !
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This is the one i use:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/905321-REG/Hitech_ht150ps10_150mm_6_6_Prostop_IRND_3_0.html

The Lee and Progrey holders will only take the 6inch/150mm filters, i think the 6.6 is for the lucroit holder.

when i ordered mine b&h sent me the older non irnd filter and it was terrible, the blue/green cast was so strong it couldn't be corrected in post.

They have a new line which are supposedly colour neutral, called firecrest, they are expensive.

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oh ! the $600 are the firecrest IRND, the "standard" IRND are about $240 and didnt saw them, will order one these! thx !
 
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