I was showing my boss my new photobook & we were chatting about camera equipment etc when I mentioned a variable ND filter that I'd like to save up for, my boss who I think is the best dude in the Universe said "no worries just go & buy it from our slush fund" which is where we (the company) keep any spare cash we get from selling scrap machines & suchlike & put aside for emergencies & other things!!
I have an ND8 & it's great in cloudy weather but totally useless in any sunlight whatsoever so I've found a variable ND2-ND400 filter & would like to know how well that would work in sunlight?
So all you ND fundies please can you give me some of your excellent experience & tell me if this would be any good or if I need to look for something even bigger?!?
It takes some playing around with to get the right settings, but it does give you flexiblity and will work in bright sun. They are much less expensive than a set of individuals and will go very, very dark when needed.
This is a 1 sec exposure shot in bright light at 200 ISO and f 22.
@sjodell I can't believe this because I just did all this reading on ND 400s for long exposure in sunlight. I couldn't afford one or the remote shutter (or whatever those things are called) and the tripod. But @carmel told me: When I did the motion shot, I took my camera up to a traffic interchange, set the shutter speed to 1/12 and the aperture to 25, ISO200 and waited for traffic to pass by, wit the camera resting on a gate. That was how I got the Ghost Van http://365project.org/carmel/extras/2012-08-23 . No special equipment or anything required.
@ptowncook There are long exposures and then there are looooooooong exposures. To go a second or longer, you will need to filter the light. Otherwise, you will end up with nothing but white with possibly a few streaks in it.
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@simon0128 Thanks Simon I'll check it out :)
@northy thanks Mira, I'll have another look at Flickr & your July calendar :)
This was taken in full daylight, 30-second exposure with stacked polarizers.
(This is the filter stack I used to capture the transit of Venus, along with a piece of welder's glass.)
It takes some playing around with to get the right settings, but it does give you flexiblity and will work in bright sun. They are much less expensive than a set of individuals and will go very, very dark when needed.
This is a 1 sec exposure shot in bright light at 200 ISO and f 22.