Cokin filters are oddly old-fashioned looking things. They're always higgledy-piggledy in a cardboard box somewhere in the camera shop, looking like something that's lain gathering dust in a corner since the Second World War. To use them, you fit an equally old-fashioned looking holding frame to the end of your high-tech USM lens then you slide in the filter. I've got a Cokin close-up filter - looks like a monocle for a very long-sighted Cyclops. It's sort of shonky - it vignettes if you zoom in, it has incredibly short depth of field, and it only gives a single point of focus. But that's the magic of it - plus it's only about 1/20th of the price of a decent macro lens.
Yeah, I love it.
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My favorites are the starburst and the tobacco gradient filter (for those amazing sunsets)
I haven't tried those yet - I use a circular polarizer for sunsets etc. But I've just ordered a Cokin NDX for long daylight exposures. Won't arrive until after the New Year so I'll wait impatiently.
Hi Crowe, happy new year - hope you'll have some more of your fab pictures for us soon!!
Happy New Year, Kate! Yes, I'd better update my blog again ... it's been nearly a month. I'm a rubbish blogger.
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