This is the Perfect Christmas Gift for Landscape Photographers
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Is there a landscape photographer in your list of gift recipients? Then they’ll be super happy that you thought of the Haida M10 Professional Filter Kit as the perfect gift for landscape photographers.
Filter Holder Systems
When choosing gifts for photographers, we have a whole lot of options. Tripods and tripod alternatives, bags, lights, lenses, and filters are nice to receive as landscape photography gifts. If your giftee is a landscape photographer, you can be pretty certain that they will have some of this gear already.
Which is partly what makes the Haida M10 Professional Kit a good choice as holiday gifts for photographers. It’s a filter holder system so you don’t even need to worry about what format their camera is or what lenses they have since filter systems adapt to most cameras and lenses on the market.
Why I Like This Kit
I consider myself first and foremost a landscape photographer, so I looked carefully at this Haida kit with an eye toward critiquing the choices of what’s included in the kit. If you are searching for gift ideas for photographers, is this Haida M10 Professional Kit the right choice?
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What Is In the Kit
Haida M10 Holder
The Haida M10 filter holder is constructed from high-grade aluminum for durability. It accepts a drop-in circular filter such as C-POL and has two slots for 100mm wide square or rectangular filters. It has gasket material and a blank light barrier ring for glare-free light transmission while using any combination of filters.
Lens Adapters
A total of four lens filter aluminum adapter rings are included: 67mm, 72mm 77mm, and 82mm. I would have preferred being able to choose my ring sizes myself since I need a 58mm adapter for some of my smaller diameter lenses, but the larger rings will fit most of the lenses your landscape photographer friends are likely to have. The holder rotates around the adapters and can be locked in place.
Drop-In C-POL
As far as an optical gift for landscape photographers, it’s hard to go wrong with a high-quality circular polarizer (C-POL) filter. Haida C-POL filters are made of super high-quality optical glass and aluminum frames. The glass is also multi coated for glare control and oil and scratch resistance. You can rotate the filter inside the filter holder.
Red Diamond 10-Stop ND
One of the most useful ND filters in any landscape photographer’s gear is a very dense ND filter for extreme long exposure effects. A 10-stop filter gives you a lot of density for creative exposure control.
Red Diamond 6-Stop ND
If I had only one ND filter to use, I would pick a 6-stop filter - they’re that useful. But in a kit, I would have preferred a 3-stop ND since I already have a 10-stop ND in the kit. A 3-stop ND is great for opening up the aperture for selective focus techniques.
100x150 3-Stop Medium GND
Graduated ND filters are also an excellent choice as a gift for landscape photographers. These allow photographers to balance dynamic range issues in a scene for capturing beautiful landscape images. A 3-stop filter offers great range and the medium edge for transitioning from clear to density is useful in a wide range of conditions. Being 150mm on one side gives the photographer room to maneuver the filter inside the holder.
100x150 3-Stop Reverse GND
The best thing for sunsets and sunrises, this reverse GND is perfectly matched for most landscape photographer’s sun-on-the-horizon imaging needs.
PhotographyTalk Approved Gift Choice!
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We’re already sold on the high quality and fantastic usefulness of Haida filters, this Haida M10 Professional Kit kit gets my full approval for everyone shopping for holiday gifts for photographers!
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