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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
