The herd

[Guest]

Also in Sutton Bonington

 

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It's hard to believe but this needed 4 stops of ND filter to keep the sky in check.

[NannyFerret]

The watery skies are hard to deal with, but you've made a good job of this one, Bill.

I must remember to take my Vario ND out with me.

[ChrisLumix]

I believe the Lumix LX7 has an ND filter built in to the lens which you can invoke from the menu?

[Guest]

I believe the Lumix LX7 has an ND filter built in to the lens which you can invoke from the menu?

Possibly some cameras have but none as far as I know enable you to vary the density or position or choose between hard and soft grads so whilst better than nothing only half a solution really.

[ChrisLumix]

Possibly some cameras have but none as far as I know enable you to vary the density or position or choose between hard and soft grads so whilst better than nothing only half a solution really.

 

That's a graduated filter, surely? I remember (though it may be at fault here) from my photographic magazine-reading days - film era - that ND filters were uniform.

[Guest]

Uniform yes but you choose which density to use and where to place the gradation.

I carry a 0.45 and 0.75 soft grad and a 0.6 hard grad ( 0.6 = 2 stops). Sometimes I use more than one and occasionally I will use one from the top and one from the bottom - I'll post an example.

 

See http://www.tipf.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=4490

[ChrisLumix]

Uniform yes but you choose which density to use and where to place the gradation.

I carry a 0.45 and 0.75 soft grad and a 0.6 hard grad ( 0.6 = 2 stops). Sometimes I use more than one and occasionally I will use one from the top and one from the bottom - I'll post an example.

 

See http://www.tipf.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=4490

 

My understanding from reading reviews of the LX7 is that the user controls the amount of ND applied. I don't know how the technology works - whether it's actual filtration or a clever bit of software - but I am pretty sure that the user has control.