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I'm looking to up my landscapes and am considering an ND Grad Kit for use on a 40d and Canon EFS 10-22. Cokin P or Z-Pro appear suitable. Just wondered what people tend to use or may recommend.

This is the kind of stuff I am talking about but have had to do substantial PP to get it like this. Would be nice straight out of the camera.

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Personally I wouldn't use the Cokin filters. I had a set of the P filters and they definitely had a magenta colour cast. I now have a set of Hitech filters in the P format and they are much better (I can't notice a cast although some people say they have one as well).

I use the Hitechs with the P filter holders and with my 10-22 on a 40D I only see the wide angle holder in the edges of the frame at around 11mm or less. With the usual P holder (three slots) you see it more often but I've still used it on that lens and cropped it out.

This image was taken with the 10-22 with the 3 slot holder and a both a Hitech ND grad (I think it was a 0.6ND) and a full ND (0.9). It was at 12mm but was cropped a little.

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I agree with Steve, there is a definite colour cast with the Cokin P series.
 
I ditched my Cokin filters for the same reason, and bought a set of Lee filters instead. Much more expensive, but definitely well worth it.

You can get them at Robert White.
 
Julie1979 said:
I agree with Steve, there is a definite colour cast with the Cokin P series.
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Yup. Have discarded mine (due to abuse lol) and I am slowly replacing them with Hitech, and it is nice that they have hard and soft grads, which I could never find with cokin.
 
Whatever you buy, you don't need a set! Start off with, say, a 2stop hard and see how you get on with it.

I've managed without a filter holder, as well, for the last 15 years or so. You can just hold the filter carefully but firmly against the rim of the lens. This is especially easy to do with the camera on a tripod, but you do use a tripod, don't you.....?
 
I have some Cokin filters, found the same thing - pink cast. If I was serious about landscapes etc, I would avoid them.

I also have a couple of Hitech ND filters, which I haven't used much yet, but when I tested seemed to give the skiy a slightly warmer colour. I shot 1 frame correctly exposed, then a longer exposure to match the strength of the ND. The exposure was correct (think it was a 1.2, 4 stops ?) but the sky was def a little warmer in colour.

But nothing like as bad as the Cokin filters!
 
I agree with the above about Cokins- you'll still be doing a lot of PP to get rid of colour casts :lol:

I'd go with Lee- they are great. I have a mix of Lee and Hitech filters due to poor planning and lack of patience as Lee can be hard to get hold of sometimes. That said, the Hitech ones are very good too. The Lee prices aren't that much more than the Cokin Z you've looked at anyway.

The Cokin P holder and hitech grads are a great value option if you wanted to keep costs down without too much compromise.
 
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