I've gotten quality filters used, but in excellent condition, from B+H for around half price of new. These were large sized Hoya and B+W filters.
-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: PESO: New Stuff with Grace > >I almost never need any thing other than a polarizer. I will have to buy an >86mm polarizer for the 150-450. It's about $200. Then I'll get an 86 to 82 >step down so I can use it on the 24-70. > >Paul via phone > >On Mar 17, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> One of the things I'll need to plan is which filters I need in which sizes, >>> and which I should get filter adapters for. >> >> Buy the largest filter and use adapter rings to fit that filter to the rest >> of your lenses - the rings are cheaper than the same sized filter. >> >> Kenneth Waller >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Colen" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: PESO: New Stuff with Grace >> >> >>> >>> >>> John wrote: >>>> I was thinking something like if you have the square or rectangular Lee, >>>> Tiffen, etc you could put the filter in front of the strobe to attenuate >>>> the light at the source, and that would work with ANY lens. >>> >>> Or just hang some shower curtain, one or two layers thick, as a diffuser, a >>> little ways in front of the strobe, or move the strobe back, or turn it >>> around and use it as a bounce. There are a lot of ways to cut down on the >>> brightness of the strobe. He could have even just hung some strips of >>> aluminum foil in front of the soft box. But, I'm quite sure that Paul >>> knows all of these tricks and just computed the ratio of how much he wanted >>> less dof versus how much work he was willing to do to get it. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 3/16/2016 2:56 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>>> Yeah, but I haven't bought any filters for the 24-70. It's 82 mm, and >>>>> I need a polarizer first for car pics. But I can dial a few stops out >>>>> of each light. Just have to wrestle with that 5 foot softbox a bit. >>> >>> With the k-1 on the verge of coming out, I did the nerd thing and made a >>> spreadsheet of all of my lenses. One of the columns is filter size. My >>> bigma is 86mm, my Sigma 20/1.7 is 82. My 16-50 and A* 200 are 77. One of >>> the things I'll need to plan is which filters I need in which sizes, and >>> which I should get filter adapters for. >>> >>> At some point, I need to start looking at ND filters. I haven't looked at >>> the electronics, but I'm a little surprised they can't turn the gain down >>> on the sensors much below ISO 100. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
