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ND filter for Raven - strengths needed?

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Patiently & excitedly awaiting my first Red :blush: coming from FS700 I'm wanting to order some ND's.

1: What strengths would Red users deem necessary?
2: Any recommendation on brand/ model?

many thanks,
James
 
i have a whole set of tiffen water whites in 4x5 and 77mm, but all i hear now is firecrest firecrest firecrest.
so i had bought the two sigma zooms, 18-35 and 50-100 and neither are 77mm, one is 72mm and the other is 82mm. what i wound up doing just to get started is ordered an ND9 in both those sizes and then i have a polarizer in 82mm randomly. this at least gets you shooting exteriors off the bat.
in the long run i would say you would like to have a nd3, nd6, nd9, nd1.2 and a polarizer.
 
Step up/down rings are your friend rather than having a bunch of filters in different sizes

For best control I recommend all the way up to 1.8 in .3 increments and a pola
 
Jake Wilganowski said:
Step up/down rings are your friend rather than having a bunch of filters in different sizes

For best control I recommend all the way up to 1.8 in .3 increments and a pola
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yes of course, but i personally wanted to try to shift over to firecrests, but as well once i put a 77mm on the 18-35 the clip on shade didnt fit, then with the 50-100mm it didnt vignette with one ND, but when i added a pola on top of that it did slightly at 50-60mm.
 
jordan levy said:
yes of course, but i personally wanted to try to shift over to firecrests, but as well once i put a 77mm on the 18-35 the clip on shade didnt fit, then with the 50-100mm it didnt vignette with one ND, but when i added a pola on top of that it did slightly at 50-60mm.
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FYI the Firecrests arent "perfectly" clean - Jake our colorist notices shifts at 0.9 and above. Not a lot - but some.
 
Nick Morrison said:
FYI the Firecrests arent "perfectly" clean - Jake our colorist notices shifts at 0.9 and above. Not a lot - but some.
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hmmm, good to know, well thats why i just bought the .9 and ill compare to my tiffen water whites, thanks nick!
 
If you can afford them, get the Firecrest NDs from Formatt. They are neutral up to ND 3.0 on Dragon and their coating is wedged between two sheets of glass so it doesn't rub off or scrape off.

A standard set is typically .3, .6, and .9. These days it's pretty common to see 1.2 in there too.
 
A relatively new company is Breakthrough Photography and I just purchased their 3 stop, 6 stop, and polarizer. For screw on types of filters, they are great. Very neutral (my testing is within 50 degrees K) nanocoated, great construction, and very affordable (all around $160 in 77mm). I have now used them on both still and Scarlet-W with very good results. http://breakthrough.photography/. Worth a look.
 
I'd suggest that you get a matte box with filter trays, buy a couple of ND filters for that...
Fact is... you are going to go through many lenses over your lifetime (buy, sell, rent and borrowed). Why buy a filter for each one?
Get a one size fits all cameras and lenses.
 
I still have my hoya pro nd's with their ir/uv filter back from my bmcc, does anyone know how they do with dragon?
 
Problem with variable NDs is that it's a polarizer but I remember Björn Benckert had a video where he tried out variables on the Dragon with good results.

Otherwise, for the Raven, if you want light weight and use still lenses you could go for screw on NDs instead. Cheaper as well.
 
I was just researching this topic. I was looking at a set of Tiffen filters. Are they a no go on a Red?
 
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