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Can anyone recommend any photo gear sites other than the usual "Big 3" (B&H, Adorama, KEH) that may have LEE filter products in stock? I was able to get the ND-grads and adapter rings I needed from B&H, but the filter holder itself as well as the 4x4 polarizer are out of stock absolutely everywhere it seems. Still waiting on my D800 as well. I sure know how to pick the low-demand products, don't I? 
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Claw Massage posted:Someone on Craigslist posted this: At only two pounds and an f8 max aperture it sounds like a mirror lens, which generally should be avoided for normal photography (terrible contrast, bokeh is donut-shaped, etc). Surveillance and astrophotography folks love 'em, though. Is there a picture with it to confirm?
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spog posted:Aren't mirror lenses fixed aperture? Oh yeah, good point. You're probably right.
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Anyone have any advice on how to clean LEE resin filters? These sons of bitches just will not come clean without a fight. I was at Point Reyes National Seashore yesterday, and between the fog and seawater all my filters got a bit dirty. First thing I did when I got home was soak the resin filters in warm water to get the salt spray off, but they came out of the water looking nastier than when they went in. I finally managed to get all the resin filters clean after using a ton of lens cleaner and maybe 20 pec pads per filter. Meanwhile my LEE glass filters came clean in less than 10 seconds. There has got to be a more efficient way to do this. Thoughts? Fake Edit: I read somewhere online where a guy was only able to get his filters perfectly clean by soaking them in a bowl of isopropyl alcohol overnight. Preferably it won't come to that.
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Yeah, the salt spray dissolved in the warm water no problem, but after removing the filters they were covered in water streaks. And then cleaning the water streaks led to lens fluid streaks, which led to more streaks which led to... and so on. Like I said, I did eventually get them clean but it was quite aggravating. The glass filters just clean perfectly without any streaks, but the resin filters are a whole different beast. And I do have a lenspen for my lenses and glass filters, but I wouldn't use it on resin filters. I'd be too afraid the charcoal/graphite powder would chew the poo poo out of them.
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Trambopaline posted:CPL filters's. I know the advice is generally the most expensive you can afford for your largest thread size, but is this in the territory of go large (as you can) or go home, or would I not be horrified with a cheapish Praktica branded CPL fliter? It's something I've been keeping on the to do list since I have noticed that I do indeed take a largeish amount of landscapes and a reasonable amount of water and want to get one since everyone insists it's a pretty critical piece of kit, but I'm not sure I want to drop 300 dollars on one. You can get one of the best CPLs on the market for around $75 in 77mm size. The Marumi DHG Super CPL is fantastic, inexpensive, and what I used before I moved to LEE filters. Honestly it might even be better than my $180 4x4 LEE polarizer, but it doesn't fit the filter holder.  http://www.lenstip.com/115.24-article-Polarizing_filters_test_Marumi_DHG_Super_Circular_P.L.D_72_mm.html Full article: http://www.lenstip.com/115.1-article-Polarizing_filters_test_Introduction.html
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