Before digital photography and post production on computers, you picked film for the outcome of image you wanted. For neutral, run of the mill shots any conventional color film would do the trick, but for move vibrant and saturated images, you would choose something like Fuji Velvia slide film or my personal favorite, Kodak E-100 […]
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Cokin is a French company that manufactures optical filters for photography. They are famous for their creative filter system that require a holder to attach to the lens and are designed to be used with any lens unlike the screw-thread filters.
Cokin offers a wide range of filters including ones for colour correction. Their most popular filters are the ND and ND graduated filters, diffraction and diffusion filters, polarizers, etc.
Cokin also offers different versions for each filter system, labelled A for amateur, P for professional and X-Pro for larger cameras/lenses. The amateur filters are about 67mm wide whereas the X-pro are 130mm wide.
Photography is about capturing light though lenses, but choosing the right lens for the job isn’t always cut and dry. Lenses for landscape photographers can be particularly difficult to choose because the vast array of options available. First and foremost, there is no one-size fits all, do everything lens. New photographers often look for the […]
