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Folks, which GND filter would you recommend for general landscape work:

1. How many stops (if you were to only have 1 filter)?
2. What brand?
3. Would you use a Cokin style filter/holder?
4. Other factors?

I meant to add that the use of a filter here was on the basis of not using HDR or similar techniques in PS.

Thanks

I bought a Cokin GND8 earlier this year.

Worked well on the D2Xs, but now after switching I haven't had the chance to get the 77mm adapter to use it :S

The GND8 works well.

I've have and have used the same filter as Wayne on my 5D. At 16mm on FF there is some vignetting..

Patrick,

look at this thread, similar question:
http://www.dslrusers.net/viewtopic.php? ... highlight=

HTH,

André

Or this blog:

http://textblog.anands.net/archives/4

I have the Cokin system (generic), but it is fiddly. I bought it for landscape work but often in practice the light is changing so rapidly, by the time I set it up I have missed ths shot. It is however very good for those overcast days when the sky tends to get blown out. I prefer to use it however rather than HDR. I use the graduated filter more often than not although I do have both one and two stop filters.

i have the Cokin P121 - 8X graduated neutral density filter reduces the light 3 stops.

there is a fairly quick transition on this one but you can slide the filter up and down a fair bit to adjust to suit the scene.

you can frame your pic the way you want then adjust the filter to get the light right.

still a fiddly thing to play with though.

thanks for the comments, guys. I knew there was another thread about this around somewhere, but couldn't find it.

Interesting reading the pros and cons about it all. Thom Hogan reckons the Cokin have something of a colour cast to them?