Posted by Larry Puckett on April 23, 2009 at 7:48 PM
OK, so I have these 100mm ND filters but if used in a holder on lenses under about 20mm you get vignetting. SInce I want to use them on a 10-20mm lens I figure I'd better learn to hand hold the filters. So anyone care to offer advice on hand holding techniques? Thanks--Larry
I wrote a little entry on my blog regarding this topic. LINK
You can just email me if you need more info.
Posted by Kent Staubus on April 23, 2009 at 10:34 PM
I do it often when I'm in a hurry. Just be careful to not scratch the filter pulling it up and down. I usually am doing this with a graduated ND filter--I don't use the "straight" kind.
Thanks Paul. I also think Art Wolfe has something on the subject in his blog http://blog.artwolfe.com
Posted by Larry Puckett on April 24, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Thanks for the feedback. I read the links plus one by Darwin who says he rarely hand holds them so I got a good cross-section of opinions. I went out today and gave it a try shooting a waterfall. I didn't have any real problems using it with my 24-105 however then I put on the 10-22mm lens. At 10mm it was very tricky since I had to get the filter as close to the lens as possible while still not hitting it and causing vibrations. After a while I did get the hang of it. Unfortunately it was a blue sky day and there was a lot of water coming over the rocks and even with a CPL+ND4 I had a lot of blown out white areas. Guess I should have invested in an ND8 as well--time for another order--Larry
Posted by Gary Crabbe on April 27, 2009 at 1:42 PM
I can tell you when not to handhold;
I was with Galen Rowell on a flight over the Bay Area in his wife's plane. He'd forgotten his filter holder, and was going to try to hand hold a filter for an aerial shot over a local reservoir. So he sticks his camera and hand-held filter out the window. A quick adjustment in framing, and his filter caught the slipstream of airflow along the body of the plane, and the filter was ripped out of his hand, and fluttered like an odd duo-tone rectangular snowflake 5000 feet back to earth.
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7 repliesYou can just email me if you need more info.
Kent in SD
Larry, in addition to Younes' article, there's also a very good one on hand-holding filters by Kah Kit Yoong.
I was with Galen Rowell on a flight over the Bay Area in his wife's plane. He'd forgotten his filter holder, and was going to try to hand hold a filter for an aerial shot over a local reservoir. So he sticks his camera and hand-held filter out the window. A quick adjustment in framing, and his filter caught the slipstream of airflow along the body of the plane, and the filter was ripped out of his hand, and fluttered like an odd duo-tone rectangular snowflake 5000 feet back to earth.