Noob, on a budget! Filter advice

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I'm just beginning to get to grips with the manual settings on my camera and building an understanding of it all. My camera is a bridge. A Fuji s2960hd.

I've purchased a lens adapter for it so I can add filters and increase the range of shots I can take. Obviously not as good as having an SLR but on a bit of a budget, and as I say just experimenting just now.

The adapter allows 58 and 77mm filters etc. I'm looking to pick up a polarising filter and an ND filter or two. The polarising filter for landscape and the ND for smoothing movement.

I'm a bit unsure what I should look at. Especially with cash being tight so I would welcome any advice on what good value filters I could look at.

Thanks in advance
 
At the absolute cheapest you'll be able to pick up some Cokin A series for peanuts on ebay, I bought my dad a wide range to fit on his compact for trying out for about £10, there was a couple of CPLs, some grads, some crazy 70s style special effects stuff, all sorts.

Next up you could go to Cokin P series, 85mm size filters, either by Cokin or Hitech, for Hitech try Teamwork Photographic who have always been good to me.

There is a new brand, http://www.84dot5mm.com/ who are getting good reviews but I've never used them.
 
You could pick up a cheap polariser fom 7dayshop (Around £10) but I have no idea on the quality. I have personally found out that I prefer buying once, but spending the extra on the 'better' item as if it I like it I will inevitably want to trade up at some stage anyway and if I sell it I have a better chance of recouping what I spent to some extent.
 
I recently got a very good price on a few Hoya and Kenko filters - a couple of UVs to use as protection (on a couple of lenses which have the front element very near the front of the lens body and only for when I think there's a very real risk of damage to the front element) and a Circular Polariser. I do have some NDs and a Cokin P setup somewhere but they're basically a hangover from when the smooth water effect was relatively uncommon rather than the must have effect (anyone else noticed how relatively few overblown HDR shots there are these days?). I got the filters from a High Street store but I do spend quite a lot of money in there so they always do as good a price as they can for me without cutting their own throats on price.

As a relatively small independent shop, they have noticed that people using internet only shops and manufacturers' cashbach deals can sometimes effectively get things cheaper than they can buy them through the trade.
 
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