ND grads same as grey grads?

f1charlie · 10 Jul 2009

I have some Cokin P grey grads from my film days. Does anyone know if these are the same as ND grads?

HoppyUK · 10 Jul 2009

They are.

68lbs · 10 Jul 2009

HoppyUK said:
They are.

Are they?

My understanding was that grey grads are not always neutral?

HoppyUK · 10 Jul 2009

68lbs said:
Are they?

My understanding was that grey grads are not always neutral?

Grey is grey, and neutral. Light or dark maybe, but not coloured.

You can have a coloured grad - blue, tobacco, pink, whatever.

james_death · 10 Jul 2009

Grey are grey and not neutral, ND grads are Neutral

68lbs · 10 Jul 2009

HoppyUK said:
Grey is grey, and neutral. Light or dark maybe, but not coloured.

I'm no expert, but grey can be warm grey or cool grey... both can't be neutral.

f1charlie · 10 Jul 2009

Thanks for the replies.

Looking at the Cokin website, they don't seem to do grad grey any more. I'm guessing ND must be some shade of grey :shrug:

HoppyUK · 10 Jul 2009

68lbs said:
I'm no expert, but grey can be warm grey or cool grey... both can't be neutral.

You can have warm white or cool white, too, but white is still white. If you want to be technical about it, white is actually very light grey, and black is just dark grey. All of these tones contain equal amounts of all colours in the spectrum except black, which contains none.