Beginner Cokin P Series Filter Kits

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Good afternoon,

Does anyone have any experience of these: Cokin P Series H3H3-21 Expert Filter Kit. I'm looking for a filter kit and I thought these looked quite good but I have seen some mixed reviews.
Alternatively, can anyone recommend anything else, like the SRB kits. Sorry, I can't afford Lee Filters:(.

Many thanks
Simon
 
I have a Hitech adapter/holder with a Kood HE & SE grad which is the same fitment as the 85mm P series. All good as long as you aren't going too wide.
 
The kit seems like there may be adapter rings in there that are of no use to you. If this is the case I’d personally go for a cheap Cokin holder (~£4 last time I checked) and adapter ring(s) for the lenses you’ll use most. Consider step up rings to bridge the gap if you’re not going to vignette (wide lenses) so you have to buy fewer adapter rings. For filters, Formatt Hitech are often regarded as good quality for the price, consider which filters you’d like carefully and get 2-3 to get going.
 
The set you are looking at is not bad value but may not give you what you want.
2 stop ND is not a lot for bright days. and there are 4 adapter rings that you may or may not need.

What do you want to use the filters for?

The Grad kits are £39.99 and have 1,2 and 3 stop grad filters and a holder, just need the to get the adapter ring for the lens you have. Alternatively the ND kit if thats the route you want.

Amazon has adapter rings for around £8 which are fine alternatives to the official cokin ones that cost £12+.

unless using screw in ND or polariser with the cokin grad filters i would just get an adapter ring for each lens you have, much simpler than step up rings

Personally I would decide on what you want the filters to achieve - a 3 stop soft and Hard grad and a 6 or 10 stop ND would give you a starting point.
I have cokin resin Grads and hoya screw in ND and polariser filters and they are a faff to interchange and combine. im saving for the glass slot in ND and polariser and will probably get the Formatt hitech versions as slightly cheaper than the cokin nuances filters
 
Thanks for the replies. I like to do sunrise & sunsets, I think I might be better served with a reverse grad...but boy, are they not cheap!

The real problem is I have no experience with filters so I don't really know what I want or need. I probably need to do some more home work before spending any money.

Thank you for all the advice.
 
The reason I was looking at the Cokin set is because I have an 18-55 which is a 55mm thread and a 70-300 which is a 58mm thread, both of which size rings are in the kit.
 
i have the same lens diameters. i have a 55 to 58 step up ring so that the 58mm screw in filters fit the 18 - 55mm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00II1L1LU/ref=oh_aui_bia_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

These adapter rings are the ones i use and are £4 not the £7 i thought earlier. 2 of these is £8 - 55mm and 58mm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cokin-BP-4...9203601&sr=1-3&keywords=cokin+p+series+holder

Filter holder £8

my limited experience an ND filter will allow a longer exposure, useful for smoothing out water, blurring cloud movement or getting that blurred water movement of waves. if thats your thing then a 6 stop would be my sugestion for sunrise sunset
Cokin dont seem to do resin ones but SRB do for £30

https://www.srb-photographic.co.uk/srb--6-stop-filter-11934-p.asp

i intend to get the format hitech glass versions to replace my screw in ones but they are £70 each


to control the sky highligths then a Grad filter is what you need
these seem to be £20 each from both cokin and srb
in this case it might be worth getting the grad set as you get a 1, 2 and 3 stop grad plus filter for £40

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cokin-Grad...39204631&sr=1-1&keywords=cokin+p+grad+nd&th=1
 
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