Haida 10-stop review

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A quick and dirty picture showing the colour performance of the Haida 10-stop slim MC ND filter.

I took a custom white balance with the lens naked, and used that setting throughout to give a true impression of colour-cast. As such, it could be improved further by setting the white balance specifically for the filter. The camera used was an X100, which has its own built-in 3-stop ND.

From left to right in the pic below...

1) No filters
2) Built in ND filter (3 stop - 8x)
3) Haida (10 stop - 1024x)
4) Haida + built in ND filter (13 stop - 8192x!!!)

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These are straight-from-camera, unedited JPEGS using exactly the same white balance setting. As you can see, the Haida works stunningly well for the price. It's easily usable for colour long-exposures with a bit of adjusting, and absolutely perfect for B&W photos. There was no noticeable degradation in image quality.

What impressed me most was that the Haida+inbuilt filter colour cast was virtually indistinguishable from the Haida by itself, meaning 8000x exposures are perfectly possible.
 
The Haida 10 stop will be my first purchase for an ND filter, I'm looking forward to getting it as I hope to get some nice long exposures and it will give me a reason to use my camera, first I got to order a tripod tomorrow, filter next week :)
 
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