Slenver
12th of July 2009 (Sun), 13:21
I fear this is going to be a bit rambling but I've spent days researching the best approach to a problem and still don't really have a solution. Any thoughts greatly appreciated :)
I'm off to the States for a couple of weeks (from UK) where I'll be picking up a Harley from LA and riding up through Vegas, Grand Canyon etc to Salt Lake City and then to Bonneville for the Speed Week on the salt flats.
I think I've sorted out which lenses to take, though that's been painful enough. Space and weight being extremely limited, I'm taking my Canon 10-22mm and Sigma 30mm 1.4 as the two lenses I can't bear to leave home without, and a borrowed Canon 28-200 for any longer length emergencies, though I'm more of a wide person.
So far so good.
However, I don't really have any filters for those lenses and I need to make a decision. I definitely want a CPL for both the main lenses but also feel I could really do with an ND grad for all that lovely canyony, deserty, salt lakey business. I also want to take lots of fully-wide stuff with the 30mm 1.4 and fear I may need a flat ND for that during the day, probably with the CPL too.
So, the standard run-of-the-mill $6m question is whether to buy screw-on filters, a square filter system or combination of the two? I want something simple, not too fiddly, not too big and ideally very cheap of course, though I sense this last thing won't happen.
The ultra-wideness of the Canon means that, as far as I've read, I'd be best off avoiding Cokin stuff and going for Lee if I were take that path. And that's quite an expensive path. But I don't want to be faffing around with filter assemblies just for some polarisation, so maybe I should be screw-on polarisers for both lenses first? And then maybe just get an ND to hand hold or go the whole hog and get the Lee system. But then I should probably just buy the square polariser.
And so it goes on. I've read a million threads about this but don't have a definitive answer yet as there's clearly no perfect solution. I'm erring on going the screw-on CPL route I think on the basis that I'll need them for 90% of the time (or not?) and then see how wealthy I'm feeling after that.
Any advice on how to carry this all on the bike would be welcome too. I'm currently thinking LowePro Slingshot but would love to able to avoid wearin a rucksack on the bike if possible. But then I have worries about vibration and carrying the cameras around off the bike.
I'm going to stop now. And thoughts very welcome.
I'm off to the States for a couple of weeks (from UK) where I'll be picking up a Harley from LA and riding up through Vegas, Grand Canyon etc to Salt Lake City and then to Bonneville for the Speed Week on the salt flats.
I think I've sorted out which lenses to take, though that's been painful enough. Space and weight being extremely limited, I'm taking my Canon 10-22mm and Sigma 30mm 1.4 as the two lenses I can't bear to leave home without, and a borrowed Canon 28-200 for any longer length emergencies, though I'm more of a wide person.
So far so good.
However, I don't really have any filters for those lenses and I need to make a decision. I definitely want a CPL for both the main lenses but also feel I could really do with an ND grad for all that lovely canyony, deserty, salt lakey business. I also want to take lots of fully-wide stuff with the 30mm 1.4 and fear I may need a flat ND for that during the day, probably with the CPL too.
So, the standard run-of-the-mill $6m question is whether to buy screw-on filters, a square filter system or combination of the two? I want something simple, not too fiddly, not too big and ideally very cheap of course, though I sense this last thing won't happen.
The ultra-wideness of the Canon means that, as far as I've read, I'd be best off avoiding Cokin stuff and going for Lee if I were take that path. And that's quite an expensive path. But I don't want to be faffing around with filter assemblies just for some polarisation, so maybe I should be screw-on polarisers for both lenses first? And then maybe just get an ND to hand hold or go the whole hog and get the Lee system. But then I should probably just buy the square polariser.
And so it goes on. I've read a million threads about this but don't have a definitive answer yet as there's clearly no perfect solution. I'm erring on going the screw-on CPL route I think on the basis that I'll need them for 90% of the time (or not?) and then see how wealthy I'm feeling after that.
Any advice on how to carry this all on the bike would be welcome too. I'm currently thinking LowePro Slingshot but would love to able to avoid wearin a rucksack on the bike if possible. But then I have worries about vibration and carrying the cameras around off the bike.
I'm going to stop now. And thoughts very welcome.