Richard B Whiting

Hi. I would like to find a ten stop ND filter to use with my Nikon 750 and a 77 mm lens. I know there are other similar lenses and I may end up with one but this is worth a try to me. Thanks!

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Just Google "77mm variable ND filter". Simple

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Here you go. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/752928-REG/B_W_1066186_77mm_110_Solid_Neutral.html?sts=pi&pim=Y

If you are looking for a variable ND, beware of the issues those present.
--Bob

CamB Loc: Juneau, Alaska

They are all over the internet. Buy it where you usually buy your gear. I have a ten step and a six step. I find I never use the ten step. With all the other camera controls i've found I never use the ten step, that I can always achieve what I want with the six step. Just a thought.
...Cam

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

I got an SRB 10x ND the other year. Just to dabble with an idea. I think I paid about £35.00 via. the EOS shop here in the UK. I'm sure there's better out there but for the money I was very pleased.
If you are in the UK I might consider selling - it doesn't fit my FF camera and lens.

http://www.srb-photographic.co.uk/77mm-nd1000-filter-6572-p.asp

Archboo3 Loc: Central Florida

I got mine at B&H, and am getting ready to purchase a 6 stop from them now.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

I have used the following 10 stop filter with much success.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1107528-REG/tiffen_49nd30_49mm_axent_nd_3_0.html

It is very inexpensive and works great in the field. The ten stop is easy to use, I manually fine my best exposure using 1/30 sec. Then when you mount your 10 stop filter, the only thing that changes is your shutter speed, you change that to 30 seconds. Make sure to cover the eyepiece, use a tripod, set your lens to manual AF, and don't breath.
Below is a image taken with this filter on a Nikon D810, Nikon 16-35 f4. 30 second exposure.

GLKTN Loc: TN

This had good reviews. I haven't used it much yet.
Sorry wrong filter.

ksmmike

Breakthrough Photography makes fantastic ND Filters. They are more expensive than most others but in my opinion are worth the investment. Why spend hundreds or maybe thousands on a lens and put a $20 filter on it that shifts the colors? Breakthrough has little to no color shift.

williejoha

Stay away from variable. Way to many issues.
WJH

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Very nice photo and explanation.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

First, it sounds as if you are looking for a fixed strength filter... not a variable one.

That's good because the variable filters are both expensive and often make for uneven effects and/or add ugly tints to images.

Ten stops is a pretty strong filter!

For example, out on a sunny day where you are using ISO 100, f/16 and 1/125 shutter speed... adding a ten stop ND filter will mean instead making an 8 second exposure. If you are in shade, deep woods or it's late or early in the day, that could easily end up being a 16 or 32 second or longer exposure! Of course, you also could use a larger lens aperture so as to shorten the exposure time... Instead of f/16, using f/5.6 is three stops difference or f/2.8 is five stops. Alternatively, you also could increase ISO, though that may not make much sense.

Probably the most widely useful single ND filter strength for still photography is six stops.

What you might consider is buying a six stop ND along with a three stop ND filter, which can be stacked and combined for nine stops if you ever need such a strong filter. You'd also have two other strengths available for the times when nine or ten stops is too much.

Also consider.... when a 10 stop filter is installed there's a good possibility a DSLR's auto focus will hunt, slow or fail entirely. It really depends upon the ambient light conditions. Your viewfinder will be dimmed down considerably, too. Those things can even happen in lower light conditions with a six stop filter. A possible solution is to use the rear LCD screen with Live View and Exposure Simulation. Otherwise you may need to remove the filter temporarily to focus, then reinstall it once you have set that (and locked it in).

There are many good brands of ND filters. I do recommend you get top quality glass and multi-coated for outdoor use. If photographing water where the filter might get splashed at times, filters with 15-layer or 16-layer "nano" multi-coatings are the most water (oil and scratch) resistant, as well as the easiest to clean.

I'm partial to B+W filters and their XS-Pro are nano multi-coated. But they're pretty expensive.

Freewell makes a series of filters that mount magnetically, so that they can quickly and easily be removed for focusing, then re-installed with less risk of bumping focus or composition.

Here's quite a selection of multi-coated 77mm ND filters in the three different strengths available at B&H Photo, sorted from least to most expensive:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Neutral-Density/ci/114/N/4026728350?sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH&filters=fct_circular-sizes_27%3A77mm%2Cfct_density_2336%3A0.9-3-stops-8x%7C1.8-6-stops-64x%7C2.7-9-stops%7C3.0-10-stops-1000x%2Cfct_features_2339%3Amulti-coated%2Cfct_nd-combinations_2338%3Astandard-nds

You may wish to shop around.... Adorama, Amazon, 2Filter.com, and others may offer additional brands you seek.

Three stop ND are typically referred to as 0.9 or ND8 (B+W models are 103 and 803).
Six stop ND are referred to as 1.8 or ND64 (B+W 106 and 806).
Ten stop ND are referred to as 3.0 or ND1000 (B+W 110 and 810).

Note: Some of the listed filters have more standard 8-layer multi-coatings... which are good, but not as water & oil resistant.

For outdoor use under a wide variety of lighting conditions, I don't recommend uncoated or single coated filters. Those are fine indoors in controlled lighting. But may cause occasional problems outdoors.

Finally, some of the listed ND filters also offer additional IR light reduction. When a strong ND filter is used, IR is not reduced in the same way as visible light and may cause a color tint in some images. It's usually pretty easily corrected in post-processing, if not taken care of by the filter itself. There are also some filters that combine an ND with a Circular Polarizer (not on the above list). BTW, a standard C-Pol can serve similar purpose to an ND.... typically they can do as much as 2.25 or 2.5 stops light reduction, at their strongest setting... or around 1.25 to 1.5 stops at their weakest. Today there are also "high transmissive" C-Pol, which reduce less light, typically ranging from roughly.75 to 1.5 stops.

ksmmike

[quote=amfoto1]First, it sounds as if you are looking for a fixed strength filter... not a variable one.

That's good because the variable filters are both expensive and often make for uneven effects and/or add ugly tints to images.

Ten stops is a pretty strong filter!


All very good advice :)
One last way to get one or two stops is to put on a polarizer either alone or with a 3 stop ND filter rather than a 6 stop but I agree for landscape, a 6 stop is one many use and please pay the extra and get a good one. If you use it even a few times a year, it pays for itself because it saves time in post getting the colors balanced.
Mike

GLSmith Loc: Tampa, Fl

Here is a shot I recently did @ Launch Complex #40 Kennedy Space Center of a SpaceX rocket at liftoff Nikon D500, 24-70 F/22 15 second, iso 100 white balance 5680 ND 10 filter...EV was accidentally set to +.7