Singh Ray vs Lee or Hitech filters

9 years 5 months ago #405080 by Jim Steyvoort
I bought one of those Lee 10 stop big stoppers and was wondering if they Singh Ray or Hitech filters have less of a color issue to them?

I'm looking at the Hitech Prostop IRND and the Singh Ray Mor Slo 10 stop filters as the replacement. 


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9 years 5 months ago #405082 by JeremyS
Lee is the best filter out on the market. As a rule of thumb, they less light they let in, the more of a colour cast that will appear. It is fixed very easily in post. 


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9 years 5 months ago #405100 by effron
They ALL have a color cast. As stated its easily remedied in post, especially if you're shooting raw files....;)

Why so serious?
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9 years 5 months ago #405180 by Roy Wilson

Takennnn wrote: Lee is the best filter out on the market. As a rule of thumb, they less light they let in, the more of a colour cast that will appear. It is fixed very easily in post. 



Lee's are good filters, but not the best on the market.  B+W and Singh Ray's I do believe would be considered 'best'.  

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9 years 5 months ago #405204 by JeremyS

Roy Wilson wrote:

Takennnn wrote: Lee is the best filter out on the market. As a rule of thumb, they less light they let in, the more of a colour cast that will appear. It is fixed very easily in post. 



Lee's are good filters, but not the best on the market.  B+W and Singh Ray's I do believe would be considered 'best'.  


A major advantage of the Lee Filter system is not being screwed in. It is much easier to put it in and out and also with their variable ND's you can change the angle/size of where the ND is. Both B+W and Singh Ray don't have this feature that I know of.


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9 years 5 months ago #405290 by Prago

Takennnn wrote:

Roy Wilson wrote:

Takennnn wrote: Lee is the best filter out on the market. As a rule of thumb, they less light they let in, the more of a colour cast that will appear. It is fixed very easily in post. 



Lee's are good filters, but not the best on the market.  B+W and Singh Ray's I do believe would be considered 'best'.  


A major advantage of the Lee Filter system is not being screwed in. It is much easier to put it in and out and also with their variable ND's you can change the angle/size of where the ND is. Both B+W and Singh Ray don't have this feature that I know of.



:agree:    big advantage! 

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9 years 5 months ago #405347 by Joves

Takennnn wrote:

Roy Wilson wrote:

Takennnn wrote: Lee is the best filter out on the market. As a rule of thumb, they less light they let in, the more of a colour cast that will appear. It is fixed very easily in post. 



Lee's are good filters, but not the best on the market.  B+W and Singh Ray's I do believe would be considered 'best'.  


A major advantage of the Lee Filter system is not being screwed in. It is much easier to put it in and out and also with their variable ND's you can change the angle/size of where the ND is. Both B+W and Singh Ray don't have this feature that I know of.


But the thing about Singh-Ray is that their filters start out at 72mm on some of them requiring a stop down ring. And they do have standard square filters for Cokin, and Lee holders. Singh-Ray is considered the top by many pro shooters for good reason, they only make high quality, and do not have a lower tier product. Their variable NDs come in many flavors, and I wish I could justify spending that kind of money on the Vari-Duo ND+Polarizer, or the new Vari-Trio which has an added color enhancer. As I said I cannot justify spending $580 on a filter. Now if I was a lottery winner, then I would have all of their filters merely because I could. :lol:
Also I have not heard many complaints about color cast with theirs. I am not saying it does not happen, but on B&H I saw a review that said there was none. Until I win the lottery I will be stacking my Lees with my hand.


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9 years 5 months ago #405368 by Garbo
There's caveats with just about every filter IMO

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9 years 5 months ago #405468 by Robert Chen

Garbo wrote: There's caveats with just about every filter IMO


+1

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