Very useful filters indeed if you shoot landscapes - saves all that merging of images or blown out skies. I don't like the grad. ND8's much think the sky can look a bit overly filtered with those, unless there is 3 stops difference. Even then it doesn't always look natural to me.

Only filters I own are ND grads and polarizer.

Talking of handholding I have heard of people who have used sunglasses in front of the lens, could be useful if you got graduated sunglasses ;) Message edited on: 04/19/2005 15:09

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
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