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Difference between hard and soft ND filters?
Yeah, I'm sure this has been asked about a zillion times already, but
what's the difference between the hard and soft NDs? I'm going to pick up a 3-stop grad ND shortly, and noticed that Singh-Ray has both "hard" and "soft" types. ???? Thanks! Jack ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Difference between hard and soft ND filters?
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Jack Black wrote: Yeah, I'm sure this has been asked about a zillion times already, but what's the difference between the hard and soft NDs? I'm going to pick up a 3-stop grad ND shortly, and noticed that Singh-Ray has both "hard" and "soft" types. ???? It means the edge of the grey part is harder or softer. generally speaking soft is more useful for wideangle, and hard can be used with tele. A "hard" filter on a wide lens at f/16 will show a very clear transition between the ND part and the blank part. Lourens |
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Difference between hard and soft ND filters?
Jack Black wrote:
Yeah, I'm sure this has been asked about a zillion times already, but what's the difference between the hard and soft NDs? I'm going to pick up a 3-stop grad ND shortly, and noticed that Singh-Ray has both "hard" and "soft" types. ???? Thanks! Jack It has to do with the nature of the transition from dark to light. A gradual change would be soft, while an abrupt change would be hard. |
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Difference between hard and soft ND filters?
Jack Black wrote:
Yeah, I'm sure this has been asked about a zillion times already, but what's the difference between the hard and soft NDs? I'm going to pick up a 3-stop grad ND shortly, and noticed that Singh-Ray has both "hard" and "soft" types. ???? Thanks! Jack Hard has a more abrupt transition between the clear portion and the ND portion. |
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Difference between hard and soft ND filters?
Jack Black writes:
pick up a 3-stop grad ND shortly, and noticed that Singh-Ray has both "hard" and "soft" types. ???? As others have said, the transition between clear and grey is abrupt in the hard types. I use hard NDs when I'm photographing a view with the ocean in the background, and I want to lower the brightness of the sky so that it stays blue. The abrupt transition works fine for the equally abrupt transition from dark ocean to bright sky. For landscapes where the transition is say, land, thend trees, then sky, the hard ND will give you a sharp line across the scene. You probably don't want a sharp line across the trees. Soft NDs will ease the transition so that it is less noticeable. Think of what's in the background between the sky and the ground: mountains of uneven height? trees of uneven height? a jagged row of buildings? a hill sloping left to right? Or flat ocean, flat land? -- Phil Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed The Civilized Explorer | spam and read later. email from this URL http://www.cieux.com/ | http://www.civex.com/ is read daily. |
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