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Hi guys, in a bit of a quandary and hoping someone can help. I now use 2 main systems, that being Olympus M4/3 and Fuji X, having recently sold all my Nikon FF gear.
I had acquired some Lee 100mm filters when I was shooting FF, they being the Lee 100mm Holder, various wide angle adapter rings, 0.9 ND Hard Grad, 0.6 ND hard grad, 0.6 ND Soft grad, Landscape Polariser, Little and Big Stoppers.
Also recently my wife bought me the NISI V5 holder system (which I can use the lee filters in) so that I could use Phil Noton's 3D Printed adapter for my Olympus 7-14 F2.8 Pro lens (which works great by the way) and use the 100mm system with that lens. That holder also included their rotatable circular polariser (which fits inside the holder).
Separately, and mainly when I was only shooting M4/3 I also started to invest in the Lee Seven5 system, and so far have the following:
Lee Seven5 Holder, various adapter rings, 0.9 ND Hard grad, 0.9 ND Soft grad, 0.6 ND soft grad, Little and big stoppers.
I like the Seven5 system as it's so small and much easier to carry in a small backpack in the lee filter case than the 100mm system. Sure it vignette's a little wide open on my Fuji 10-24 (OK at 12mm), and I obviously can't fit it to my Olympus 7-14 Pro lens, but you will see from the above, the one thing I am missing is a Seven5 system polariser. These (for their size) are hideously expensive and quite often more than the 100mm landscape polariser ! So basically I've now reached a cross road. Do I continue with the Seven5 system and purchase the £200 polariser, or do away completely with the Seven5 in favour of the bigger 100mm system ?
Advantages I can see is that the 100mm system will fit all my lenses including the Olympus 7-14, and won't vignette on the Fuji 10-24, and I already have 2 polarisers.
Downsides are the bigger system is obviously much more bulky and thus more "difficult" to carry in a relatively small back pack. There's also the argument that the Seven5 system was specifically designed for the smaller APS-C and M4/3 sensors and theoretically the graduations are tailored to these smaller sensors, whereas the 100mm system filter graduations, are designed for full frame sensors.
To add insult to injury, I just received the SRB Photographic catalogue though the post, and they are now producing their own 85mm system called the Elite system. These are very competitively priced (massively cheaper than Lee) and have the advantage that being 85mm size, you can use SRB's own cheap filters (unknown quality to me), the Cokin P sized filters or indeed the Formatt Hitech range of filters in the same holder.
What would you guys do in my position please ?
I had acquired some Lee 100mm filters when I was shooting FF, they being the Lee 100mm Holder, various wide angle adapter rings, 0.9 ND Hard Grad, 0.6 ND hard grad, 0.6 ND Soft grad, Landscape Polariser, Little and Big Stoppers.
Also recently my wife bought me the NISI V5 holder system (which I can use the lee filters in) so that I could use Phil Noton's 3D Printed adapter for my Olympus 7-14 F2.8 Pro lens (which works great by the way) and use the 100mm system with that lens. That holder also included their rotatable circular polariser (which fits inside the holder).
Separately, and mainly when I was only shooting M4/3 I also started to invest in the Lee Seven5 system, and so far have the following:
Lee Seven5 Holder, various adapter rings, 0.9 ND Hard grad, 0.9 ND Soft grad, 0.6 ND soft grad, Little and big stoppers.
I like the Seven5 system as it's so small and much easier to carry in a small backpack in the lee filter case than the 100mm system. Sure it vignette's a little wide open on my Fuji 10-24 (OK at 12mm), and I obviously can't fit it to my Olympus 7-14 Pro lens, but you will see from the above, the one thing I am missing is a Seven5 system polariser. These (for their size) are hideously expensive and quite often more than the 100mm landscape polariser ! So basically I've now reached a cross road. Do I continue with the Seven5 system and purchase the £200 polariser, or do away completely with the Seven5 in favour of the bigger 100mm system ?
Advantages I can see is that the 100mm system will fit all my lenses including the Olympus 7-14, and won't vignette on the Fuji 10-24, and I already have 2 polarisers.
Downsides are the bigger system is obviously much more bulky and thus more "difficult" to carry in a relatively small back pack. There's also the argument that the Seven5 system was specifically designed for the smaller APS-C and M4/3 sensors and theoretically the graduations are tailored to these smaller sensors, whereas the 100mm system filter graduations, are designed for full frame sensors.
To add insult to injury, I just received the SRB Photographic catalogue though the post, and they are now producing their own 85mm system called the Elite system. These are very competitively priced (massively cheaper than Lee) and have the advantage that being 85mm size, you can use SRB's own cheap filters (unknown quality to me), the Cokin P sized filters or indeed the Formatt Hitech range of filters in the same holder.
What would you guys do in my position please ?
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