NDs and Polarisers

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Anyone any suggestions.
I have B&W Kaesmann somewhere, but I can't find where I put the box......in a bag somewhere!

ND 3-stop and ND 6-stop are what I need to get.
Plus a GOOD circ pol - a thin one that I can use with 16mm-35mm without vignetting.
 
Lensflare said:
Anyone any suggestions.
I have B&W Kaesmann somewhere, but I can't find where I put the box......in a bag somewhere!

ND 3-stop and ND 6-stop are what I need to get.
Plus a GOOD circ pol - a thin one that I can use with 16mm-35mm without vignetting.
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I would get Hoya ProNDs, and I use a Hoya HD polariser. This is of the lighter-toned variety (1.2 stops light reduction, rather than 1.7-ish) and also has strain-resistant and easy-clean coatings - even nasty crap like sea spay wipes off easily. Marumi Exus is similar :thumbs:
 
Thanks Hoppy - I have Hoya at the moment the Pro1 series and they are thin, but they are also CRAP - they scracth for pastime, just looking at them scratches them, I am sure they ship them with scratches as a free addition. I go through at least 2 a year. The coatings lift off with salt spray, even immediately washed with fresh water before drying and then cleaning with optical Wonder fluid. They do cut through the glare though. I am not fussed about the 0.5 stop difference, but others may be.

A friend swears by Singh-Ray polarisers, bout $300 each in 77mm (where I found them anyway).
Since asking I have found BRAKTHROUGH FILTERS, an American firm. I feel like giving them a go - anyone any experience of them?
 
Heck knows what you're doing to scratch filters like that, but the answer lies in the coating. Hoya Pro1 are good filters and the multicoating is effective, but they're prone to marking, like most filters TBH, and even dried-on water can leave trace marks that are almost impossible to remove. Do you always use a lens hood, to help protect them from crap? If you work in harsh environments a lot, filters should be regarded as consumable protection really, as you have found!

Try some of the high-end filters with tough strain-resistant coating, like the Hoya HD and Revo ranges, or Marumi DHG-Super and Exus, B+W MRC. Singh-Ray marketing has a distinct air of snake oil about it IMHO, and prices are daft.
 
Thought the new Hoya hd filters had coatings that liquids ran off, as well as scratch prevention?
Only polariser I've broken had a stone go through it, thrown up by the car in front as I was doing a tracking shot of it.
 
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