Satisfaction!
Pratt, by the way is an old English phrase for a cunning and devious person. I wasn't just swearing!
As for filters being useless, proper ones are , in my view, better than the digital ones all camera makers seem think we need.
K110+DA40, K200+DA35, K3 and a bag of lenses, bodies and other bits.
Mustn't forget the Zenits, or folders, or...
PPG entries.
G
I try to avoid coming across like an arrogant arse when I haggle at boot sales. My Wife and I do a good 'good cop/bad cop' double act where needed tho'
At the end of the day, I find I'm more likely to get the haggle in my favour if I'm being nice, and, like Lemmy, when I have sold things, tend to clam up when the buyer is acting like a pratt.
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Photography? Didn't that go out with the Beatles?
What filters are you looking for? I might be able to oblige with one or two.
G
That would be great, George! The only thing is: I don't know what to get yet. Have been thinking about a Cokin or Lee system so that I can use the filters on any lens, but then I don't even know whether I'll use them a lot, so it may be better to start with just 1 or 2. We spent a week on the coast a month ago and I took a lot of sunset pictures, some of which were ruined because of the sun's reflection on the sea. I'd need a polarizing filter for that I think? And I'd also like one to brighten up grey skies / enhance colours - or would that be a polarizing one as well?
If you think the ones you want to sell might be useful to me, please let me know. I'll start looking up the filter sizes of my favourite lenses.
Thanks again!
The most useful filters you could have might be a polariser and a 0.6 and 0.9 ND graduated filters.
I should add that this thread is about Cokin filters which dont screw onto the front of a lens but are part of system built around a holder that can hold 3 filters at a time and is attached by interchangeable rings which DO screw onto the lens. Inexpensive and very very useful.
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
K7, K20D, istDS, Optio SV, ME
Most used glass
50mm f1.4, 60-250mm, 28-80mm,
Sigma 105mm 2.8 Macro & Bertha 50-500
Having said that, each lens is for a different purpose, so I dont mind too much. I'll hold off getting another Circular Polariser until I know which lens is going to replace the kit lens permanently.
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What filters are you looking for? I might be able to oblige with one or two.
G
That would be great, George! The only thing is: I don't know what to get yet. Have been thinking about a Cokin or Lee system so that I can use the filters on any lens, but then I don't even know whether I'll use them a lot, so it may be better to start with just 1 or 2. We spent a week on the coast a month ago and I took a lot of sunset pictures, some of which were ruined because of the sun's reflection on the sea. I'd need a polarizing filter for that I think? And I'd also like one to brighten up grey skies / enhance colours - or would that be a polarizing one as well?
If you think the ones you want to sell might be useful to me, please let me know. I'll start looking up the filter sizes of my favourite lenses.
Thanks again!
George, I think you may have overlooked this? Not to worry, just interested in what you might want to sell. Thanks.
I have to say, however, that the ones I have that are surplus to requirements are the B&W ones, and unless you shoot film, they are unlikely to be of interest. I do have a polariser and neutral grad, but plan to keep them.
Jackie mentioned the Lee system. It's excellent, but very expensive. An alternative is to use round filters with step-up rings. These work fine on most lenses but may vignette on very wide lenses.
G
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I priced them at 50p each just to get rid of them. A guy came up and gave me some spiel about how they were useless and he'd give me a fiver for the lot. I felt like telling him they'd earned their keep many times over in pic sales so they couldn't be that useless, but what the hell, I couldn't be bothered! He was pretty rude, though and said if I didn't sell them to him now, he's come back in an hour and only offer me £3. I said ok.
Two minutes later another man came along, looked through the filters and gave me £12 without any query. Bit of a bargain, those, he said. I know, I replied.
Five minutes later, the fhe first, forceful bloke came back. Where are the filters, he said. Sold, I said. He looked really *****ed off.
I'm not malicious by nature, but I have to admit it made my day.