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billy4030
26-03-2014, 9:36am
Just got some Lee nd grads recently, and saw this on youtube. So interesting and I can see why they are expensive. Enjoy

Cheers
Wayne


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMu_m203YaY

Koko
26-03-2014, 12:22pm
WoW that's amazing. Thanks for sharing . A must watch..

freelancer
26-03-2014, 1:14pm
How much more work would be involved for the circular filters if thats how long it takes to just make those.
Jon

billy4030
26-03-2014, 1:22pm
Not sure about the Lee circular polarizer. Mine here has Japan on it, so must be from a more specialist manufacturer maybe?? Dont know

dt86vyss
26-03-2014, 9:44pm
Yeah good video... i have a full set of soft nd grads, a hard grad and a couple of nd's as well as a CPL and Big Stopper.... I look at that collection and think.... Geez there is a lot of manual labour here!!

Also, the Big Stopper is like currency. They are so rare they fluctuate in price according to availability!!

I do think however, Lee have recently made some process improvements which has allowed them to double the volumes they are able to produce in the same time frames.

ricktas
27-03-2014, 7:28am
Looking forward to seeing some of your photos using them Billy

billy4030
27-03-2014, 9:06am
Rick, Will be taking some as soon as I get a day off work, and the weather fines up here

enduro
29-03-2014, 12:10am
I have the LEE ND grads, the CPL and the Big Stopper.

The latter two are indispensable, sometimes together, sometimes apart.

The grads have only ever been used once that I can recall. With low noise, bracketing etc these days I find the use of ND grads unnecessary and have not needed to use them. Some however, will argue otherwise and have had good experience with them though.