Neutral Density Filters are a necessary tool for exposure control, but does their price tag really affect their quality? Today Griffin sits down with 23 ND filters that range in different price tiers from $5 all the way to $580 to see!
Today we hard tested 23 ND filters for their color and image quality, flare resistance, and their usefulness in timelapse situations. We test a range of ND’s from a set of general purpose ND3 filters, to Variable Density Filters, to heavily graded ND10 filters for their use in time-lapse photography. While every type of ND filter has it’s own use, we mainly set out to see if the price tag really affected image quality, and whether variable ND’s were much worse than single glass ND’s.
Below are all the ND filters we tested! ND Filters of denser grades (6 stops), that were not pictured on screen can be expected to have similar quality to their less dense counterparts (3 stops).
Check out the Cheap Thing Vs. Expensive Thing gear:
https://kit.com/IndyMogulVariable NDs (77mm):
* [2–8 stops] $20 GB Optics “Slim Variable ND”
https://bhpho.to/2NswFwt* [2–8 stops] $130 Tiffen “Variable ND Filter”
https://amzn.to/2U51N7Y* [1–5 stops] $300 B+W “XS-Pro Digital ND Vario MRC-Nano Filter”
https://amzn.to/2Eag1Oa* [4–8 stops] $580 Singh-Ray “Vari-N-Trio Variable ND Filter (Thin Ring Mount)”
https://amzn.to/2U4d6x4Solid NDs (77mm):
* [3 stops] $5 Yashica “0.9”
* [2 stops] $30 Ice “ND4” (part of $80 bundle)
https://amzn.to/2XmiUUu* [3 stops] $30 Ice “ND8” (part of $80 bundle)
https://amzn.to/2XmiUUu* [4 stops] $30 Ice “ND16” (part of $80 bundle)
https://amzn.to/2XmiUUu* [5 stops] $30 Ice “ND32” (part of $80 bundle)
https://amzn.to/2XmiUUu* [6 stops] $30 Ice “ND64” (part of $80 bundle)
https://amzn.to/2XmiUUu* [10 stops] $30 Ice “ND1000” (part of $80 bundle)
https://amzn.to/2XmiUUu* [3 stops] $34 Tiffen “ND 0.9”
https://amzn.to/2EoU133* [3 stops] $39 Hoya “NDX8”
https://amzn.to/2E7CdIm* [3 stops] $59 B+W “SC 103”
https://amzn.to/2SX6YKB* [6 stops] $97 B+W “SC 106”
https://amzn.to/2EeRWFJ* [3 stops] $159 Breakthrough Photography “X4 ND”
https://amzn.to/2E4tF5m* [6 stops] $169 Breakthrough Photography “X4 ND”
https://amzn.to/2EqnARVSolid NDs (100x100mm):
* [3 stops] $237 LEE Filters “ProGlass IRND”
https://amzn.to/2U2yx1p* [6 stops] $237 LEE Filters “ProGlass IRND”
https://amzn.to/2EoKTMb* [10 stops] $237 LEE Filters “ProGlass IRND”
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