Quick survey; ND grads....

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Simple question...hard or soft grad?

I'm thinking probably soft, for smooth transition, but wondered what everyone else uses and why you prefer that type........?

 

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I am not famila with the term hard and soft. I would have thought it just refered to density.

Hard/Soft refers to the transition between the ND and clear parts of the filter; a hard transition is pretty much a straight cut, with 50% of the filer cuttinglight and 50% being clear. A soft grad has a more diffuse border between the two areas so the transition is less marked.

 

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If I understand this cortrectly, an ND4 is a four stop ND filter. A 0.6ND is a 3-stop filter.

I think............

Certainly a 0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 set gives 1, 2 and 3 stops of light reduction.