Purple tint??

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hi all,

didnt know what forum this should be in but i need advice! I've been out this morning taking photos and when i've come back on the ones with my cokin p filters attached there is a horrible purple tint!

i had a circular polariser attached as well (hoya HD), just wondering if the polariser and the filters have worked together to create a horrible purple tint???

annoyed as when i've come back some good photos are looking crap :bang:

any help is appreciated.
 
Cokin nd filters? Awful rubbish. I wasted my money on a set of grads and nd's and never got anything other than purple.
 
Cokin's magenta colour cast from their 'neutral' density filters are a well known characteristic, I'm afraid.

Users speak highly of the likes of Lee filters. They're a more expensive option, but they are an option.
 
Lee are the very best, but come with at a price and at times are hard to come by.

I recently bought (money is tight right now!!) a hitech soft grad which is actually very nice and reasonably priced. A set would make a nice budget landscape kit.
 
is there a reason for the cast? is it just simply the light being reflected through the poor quality filters?? :bonk:

ps yep they are the ND grads.
 
Finlee said:
is there a reason for the cast? is it just simply the light being reflected through the poor quality filters?? :bonk:

ps yep they are the ND grads.
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Put the ND8 and the ND4 together and look at the sky with them. That's you're answer, it's just the way they are coloured. I had a long discussion with Warehouse Express customer support and Cokin's UK importers after I bought the ND set and ND grad set. Both suggested there was nothing wrong with the filters, they were their best sellers, but offered to replace them as a goodwill gesture.

"Great - I'll have them if you put the 4 and 8 filters together, look at the sky and tell me you don't see purple"

I never got them replaced.

You'll get about 250,000 hits if you google cokin nd magenta. If you're lucky you can correct some of it in photoshop but it's really hard. I prefer just not to use them anymore.
 
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cheers digital and byker.

at least it was local i was using them so i can retake the shots, i'd be mortified if it were somewhere i'd never have gone back to, or afforded to go back to!
 
I beg to differ - my cokin filter was green!
 
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