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Hi chaps
I'm after a 10 stop ND filter. All my lenses are 77mm so I reckoned for the amount of use I'd give it a standard screw in filter would do. I've seen Hoya ND1000 for what seems to be a reasonable price, my question is - I know some cheap ND's give a horrendous colour cast, Hoya used to be good quality, is this tue of the ND1000. If it's no good is ther something available at a reasonable price I should consider instead?
TIA
 
Hi,

I have had a Hoya Pro ND1000 and just got rid of it as it was too small for my new lens. Didn't notice any major colour cast with it and thought it did a really decent job actually!

Tom
 
I have one of the ProND1000's, there's no noticable colour cast
 
GordonM said:
Hi chaps
I'm after a 10 stop ND filter. All my lenses are 77mm so I reckoned for the amount of use I'd give it a standard screw in filter would do. I've seen Hoya ND1000 for what seems to be a reasonable price, my question is - I know some cheap ND's give a horrendous colour cast, Hoya used to be good quality, is this tue of the ND1000. If it's no good is ther something available at a reasonable price I should consider instead?
TIA
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I would avoid the Hoya ProND 1000. I had some sharpness issues with it in a recent comparison test I did for Digital SLR Photography magazine, and others have too. Google some reviews, eg this one from the respected DigitalPicture. Hoya's excuse also published there is nonsense.
https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/10-Stop-Neutral-Density-Filter.aspx#Summary

It's a peculiar ghosting problem, a kind of double-image towards the edges that looks a bit like camera-shake. I also reviewed the Hoya ProND 200 (7.7 stops) which was fine and personally I find that's a better all-round option - ten stops is too dark for a lot of situations. If I was serious about this kind of thing, I'd get both ten stops and six stops, so around eight makes a good compromise.

In that magazine review, the Haida IRND came top for performance and value, though ignoring cost the Hitech Firecrests are impressive. The lack of optical vignetting you get with these evaporated metal coatings, like the Hoya ProND, is very noticeable with super-wide lenses. It's caused by the lens seeing through the filter at an angle around the edges, so the glass is effectively thicker and darker. You don't get that with the evaporated metal process.

Don't get hung up on a bit of a colour cast though. It's nice to be somewhere close when working, and that's easily achieved by a tweak to white balance settings or even a custom white balance if you're picky, but what matters is the colour quality after correction in post processing. Some excellent filters, like B+W, have a warm cast because that produces more accurate colours throughout the spectrum after correction in post. That's what B+W say anyway :)
 
Ah, just realized Hoppy posted the same link. Anyway, I have one of Breakthrough's 3 stop ND filter and am very happy with it.
 
I saw the Breakthrough filters, but I was put off by a) non availability here in the U.K., I didn't fancy the hassle of import taxes, Royal Mail 'fees' and b) some reviews seemed to have poor customer service
 
HoppyUK said:
I would avoid the Hoya ProND 1000. I had some sharpness issues with it in a recent comparison test I did for Digital SLR Photography magazine, and others have too. Google some reviews, eg this one from the respected DigitalPicture. Hoya's excuse also published there is nonsense.
https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/10-Stop-Neutral-Density-Filter.aspx#Summary

It's a peculiar ghosting problem, a kind of double-image towards the edges that looks a bit like camera-shake. I also reviewed the Hoya ProND 200 (7.7 stops) which was fine and personally I find that's a better all-round option - ten stops is too dark for a lot of situations. If I was serious about this kind of thing, I'd get both ten stops and six stops, so around eight makes a good compromise.

In that magazine review, the Haida IRND came top for performance and value, though ignoring cost the Hitech Firecrests are impressive. The lack of optical vignetting you get with these evaporated metal coatings, like the Hoya ProND, is very noticeable with super-wide lenses. It's caused by the lens seeing through the filter at an angle around the edges, so the glass is effectively thicker and darker. You don't get that with the evaporated metal process.

Don't get hung up on a bit of a colour cast though. It's nice to be somewhere close when working, and that's easily achieved by a tweak to white balance settings or even a custom white balance if you're picky, but what matters is the colour quality after correction in post processing. Some excellent filters, like B+W, have a warm cast because that produces more accurate colours throughout the spectrum after correction in post. That's what B+W say anyway :)
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Very interesting thanks. I've encountered this I believe, but had put it down to my own incompetence!
 
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