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[milou]

Hmmm...'86...I was 23 :/

 

[old.user4556]

Lee DSLR starter filter kit on sale this weekend only (haven't checked prices elsewhere, but got an email from Robert White about it this morning).

http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/dslr-starter-kit.html

 

[DaGaffer]

and I was 20, you young whippersnapper

 

[Edmond]

I was 17.....grandad's

 

[milou]

Lee DSLR starter filter kit on sale this weekend only (haven't checked prices elsewhere, but got an email from Robert White about it this morning).

http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/dslr-starter-kit.html

Plus the cost of the filter ring. I can see why there are more and more blends.

 

[old.user4556]

As in exposure blends? I've started doing a lot more of them, much easier to control sometimes not to mention the lack of availability / price of Lee bits and bobs for those new to the game.

 

[old.user4556]

Announcement on the 23rd of July, probably mirrorless.

http://www.canonrumors.com/2012/07/mirrorless-update-aps-c-cr2/

Great to see canon utilising a brand new state of the art sensor to keep up with the competition.

Oh wait. It's the same noisy, pattern banding, crappy low DR version from two years ago. I bet it'll cost more expensive than the rest as well.

 

[milou]

As in exposure blends? I've started doing a lot more of them, much easier to control sometimes not to mention the lack of availability / price of Lee bits and bobs for those new to the game.

Me too and sometimes from the same RAW file. As you know there's a considerable latitude in processing. I've experimented with one for the fore/mid ground and one for the sky. I'd never be without the 0.9 glass ND or the 10 stop though.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

When I was trying for long exposure stuff I was using a x8 + x4 ND combo to try and limit the light but I could never get it dark enough to get real long exposure times.

What was I doing wrong? I don't get it

 

[old.user4556]

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/16/first-rumored-specs-for-canons-entry-level-full-frame/

My Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 is knacked, back to WEX it goes.

 

[old.user4556]

Go full frame they said.

Go to Spain and take some pictures they said.

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/16...a-fight-with-a-bull-somehow-saves-his-camera/

 

[Exioce]

When I was trying for long exposure stuff I was using a x8 + x4 ND combo to try and limit the light but I could never get it dark enough to get real long exposure times.

What was I doing wrong? I don't get it

8x4 is still only limiting the amount of light by 1/32.
The ten-stopper mentioned above limits light by 1/1024.
Get one of those and you can have 3 minute long exposures in sunshine no problem.

 

[caLLous]

CR2 on new full frame Canon.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Go full frame they said.

Go to Spain and take some pictures they said.

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/16...a-fight-with-a-bull-somehow-saves-his-camera/

Such an amateur. I know he probably has it on auto but for the love of god couldn't he aim at his subject?

 

[Wazzerphuk]

8x4 is still only limiting the amount of light by 1/32.
The ten-stopper mentioned above limits light by 1/1024.
Get one of those and you can have 3 minute long exposures in sunshine no problem.

Thanks.

The whole thing isn't explained very well in product details.

Now, when can anyone in the world expect a big lee stopper then eh? 2018?

 

[caLLous]

G might let you touch his big stopper if you ply him with a bit of alcohol first...

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Ordered my Macro lens for £399.00 delivered new. I'll take that.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Any ideas on what these are like for 10-stoppers?

http://www.teamworkphoto.com/heliopan-neutral-density-filter-stops-p-10221.html

 

[caLLous]

"Not as good as Lee" would be my first reaction.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Well obviously

But construction and price wise they look a very good alternative - cheap enough to worth trying I think, just wondering if anyone has any personal experience/knowledge about them.

 

[caLLous]

Of course, the second reaction is "but available". They are screw-in rather than using a filter-holder system and it doesn't look like the Lee's will be available any time soon tbh. It's shocking how much this production problem of theirs has held everything up.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I know it's all handmade and handchecked and everything, but surely it can't take this long to make stuff?

Makes me wonder about their competency tbh if you can't even get stuff out of manufacture at all. And yes that they're available is a BIG draw

 

[old.user4556]

Lulz - http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=Lee+big+stopper&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1

I can't remember the back story with Lee, but something to do with a) a problem with a piece of equipment and b) a massive surge in the popularity of digital photography and thus filters.

They can't make enough, fast enough.

I nearly lost my 10 stop to Derwent Water.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

£300 for a bit of dark glass

 

[caLLous]

Lee are owned by the mighty Panavision and their products are in massive demand. They are devoting most of their resources to their colour gels (motion picture stuff). I saw somewhere (it might've been the Robert White rep I was talking to at the time) that their colour gels are the industry standard for stage-lighting. The long and the short of it is that they just make a boatload more money from that side of their business than they do selling 100mm filters and kits to photographers.

They can't possibly still be using the broken piece of manufacturing kit as an excuse though - they were singing that song nearly 3 years ago when I bought the starter kit and a couple of filters!

 

[Exioce]

I just got the B+W 110M, does the job.

 

[old.user4556]

Ive got one of those spare on my shelf.

 

[old.user4556]

I've made a decision on a new camera.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I've made a decision on a new camera.

COCKTEASE MUCH?

 

[caLLous]

You're playing right into his attention-slag hands Wazz!

Do tell, G.