Digital Neutal Density Filter??

rmh159 · Jan 21, 2008

I was checking out the neutral density filters at adorama.com and noticed that they have digital neutral density filters as well the ... non-digital??? What's the difference? Sounds gimmicky to me but maybe someone can prove me wrong.

Big Mike · Jan 21, 2008

Sounds gimmicky to me as well.

bikefreax · Jan 21, 2008

I was told by our local photo shop that the digital ones have more coatings to prevent light flares in digital cameras. I thought it was a gimmick also. I just bought a regular circular polarizer with no problems so far.

Alex_B · Jan 21, 2008

bikefreax said:
I was told by our local photo shop that the digital ones have more coatings to prevent light flares in digital cameras. I thought it was a gimmick also. I just bought a regular circular polarizer with no problems so far.

this sounds ..... stupid to me

the rear coating of a lens might be of some effect, to prevent reflections between that real lens element and the sensor, but the filter is just on the other side

domromer · Jan 21, 2008

You could just skip the filter and do this.

http://www.jessespeer.com/making_the_image/2004_0712_chasm/index.html

I like messing in PS so this is actually fun for me. Some people may prefer to screw on a filter.

astrostu · Jan 21, 2008

domromer said:
You could just skip the filter and do this.

http://www.jessespeer.com/making_the_image/2004_0712_chasm/index.html

I like messing in PS so this is actually fun for me. Some people may prefer to screw on a filter.

Sometimes you do need the filter, though. I was shooting a waterfall and I had my aperture as small as I could get it but still to properly meter I couldn't do more than a 1/2-sec shot. A good ND filter would've helped a lot there.