I can't seem to find a straight answer as to whether or not I should buy a CPL on its own, or a 2 in 1 CPL/VND combo? I've tried to read up a lot, but I'm still torn. It seems consensus was CPL alone, but I aren't there many times you want to smooth out water, slow down your shutter, and you'd want the VND portion?
CPL standalone or CPL+VND?
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Yep - that's good advice. Freewell, Kase, NiSi make good systems, as does K&F though the previous 3 are probably one tier up.
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I tried a KF cpl vnd and returned it, I've not tried anything else like one by another maker. I use a NiSi V7, True Color cpl and for what you require, a soft GND, sometimes a reverse GND 100 x 100. Stacking filters will cause pronounced corner and very undesirable vignetting.. With round filters I use step-up rings for having larger diameter filters, with an ND, cpl or more why on earth would I require a lens shade, to increase vignette to horrible unbelievable effect level ? Also and because many do this, UV, CPL, and ND stacked. "Glass" blocks UV and Alpha Radiation naturally, without any coatings applied. It should be about the light present, then you apply the filtering of what of what you want and don't want in the situation. Otherwise, a Tiffen cpl is extremely hard to top as a general purpose cpl. If you want hyper critical atomic structure in your images, then by all means buy a Lee, NiSi, or similar with one of those $750 to $1000 sets. At the other end, a Tiffen cpl and a Tiffen Sky 1b / 81a stacked, then a ND filter for landscapes if necessary and also for skin tones in portraits and street. The scene dictates the filter(s) required
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