Generic ebay cokin filters?

[hamradio]

Has anyone tried the various cheap ebay cokin style filters? I'm guessing that results would probably be sub-par, but for as cheap as they are it's almost worth a try, IMO. Opinions?


An example-
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gradual-Gray-ND...ters?hash=item41462edbbd&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

 

[Al Kaplan]

I used some of the original Cokins probably twenty or more years ago on a Hasselblad for wedding photography. They were plastic and did scratch fairly easily. At the time if I could have bought cheaper filters I would have jumped at the chance!

The sad truth is that cheap filters often seem to give as good a result as the premium lines of glass filters (but don't tell anybody).

http://thepriceofsilver.blogspot.com