Urth 52mm Hard Graduated ND8 Lens Filter (Plus+)
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About this item
- GRADUATED 3 F-STOPS | Urth Hard Graduated ND8 Plus+ give a 3 f-stop light reduction to half you image to perfectly balance highlights and lowlights when shooting landscapes
- THE BEST GLASS | Enjoy truer light transmittance for perfect colour neutrality, and easier cleaning with our 20-layer nano-coated German SCHOTT glass
- BALANCED LIGHT | Perfect exposure even when your foreground and background have different light levels. Backed by our lifetime guarantee
- HARD GRADUATION | For clean, defined light transitions. Like a mountain ridge or sea horizon when you have a bright sky background and a low light foreground with a sharp transition
- PLANT 5 TREES | This Urth filter funds local communities to plant 5 trees in areas affected by deforestation
Reviews
★★★★★
Size: 58mm | Verified Purchase
Provides you with a option to hold your sky for landscape photography.
Good Quality item. Darkens the sky down towards a moody grayish. Its an effective option to practice with filters.
★★★★★
Size: 52mm | Verified Purchase
★★★★★
Size: 77mm | Verified Purchase
The graduated filter works great!
★★★★★
Size: 67mm | Verified Purchase
★★★★★
Size: 67mm | Verified Purchase
First thoughts:
Pros
High quality metal construction.
Easy to rotate.
Cuts through a good amount of light to bring out depth in clouds.
Stackable as the outer screw thread is the same as the lens thread.
Hard graduated lens gives a sharp contrast between below and above your horizon.
Cons
There’s a bit of vignetting in the top corners of the image but I can alter this in post.
Outstanding build quality and filter construction from an ethical manufacturer who plants 5 trees when you purchase and another 5 if you enter the code from your purchase on their website.
The filter is constructed with same size threads front and back so you can still use your lens cap or stack your filters. The filter profile is also thin enough that it doesn’t cover the tracks of my lens hood so I can connect or reverse my lens hood while the filter is on.
The hard graduated filter creates a sharp start/stop point with little fade between the clear half and the ND8 half so you can line it up with your horizon pretty easily. It has a rotating bezel so you can also rotate it with minimal force when shooting vertically.
Details and things to note (See pictures):
Hard graduated ND8 filter (I selected a 67mm screw thread to use on a 16mm wide angle lens).
Kills some of the unwanted light from bright skies, sunlight and reflections from water (if flipped) while allowing normal light balancing and exposure from the clear half.
The filter does seem to create or enhance vignetting slightly but this can either be removed in post (I shoot NEF/RAW) or it can actually enhance the feel of the photo if it’s slight and reduces the brightness of the sky rather than darkening important elements in the picture.
Final thoughts:
I use this pretty much on a daily basis as it works equally well during the golden hours before sunrise and sunset and is invaluable when I’m out and about in bright sunlight or overcast days.
I can pull in balanced light for clear sharp foregrounds in low light without washing out the picture with white clouds or a bright sky.
If you’re just getting into using filters then I’d highly recommend one of these to create interesting shots when you’re battling against bright horizons.
★★★★★
Size: 82mm | Verified Purchase
Grad NDs are great for wider shots where you’ve got sky you want to darken at the top of the frame.
The quality of the filter is great, it’s colour accurate, well built, and has a nice soft edge to the ND which means you don’t see the hard edge of the ND. I find ND 8 quite a high strength, so it’s a noticeable more stylised effect, but can be about right when the sky is very bright.
This is a screw-on grad filter which means you can rotate it but you can’t adjust the height of the filter, so it relies on the specific shot you’re doing having sky in the correct place for the ND to be darkening it without darkening the rest of the shot. I’m still giving it 5 stars because this is true of any screw on grad ND, not specific to this one, but it’s something to be aware of! For the price it’s worth having in your kit, as it’s very well made! But just be aware you won’t be using it every day, and it’s really just for wide shots/landscapes in my opinion!
★★★★★
Size: 55mm | Verified Purchase
One of the best ND filters I have owned. I have a few filters by Gobe and the build quality is always impressive. With this being graduated, it is perfect for capturing detail on bright days when it is hard to balance the exposure. Having this on your lens will allow you to darken the sky while getting perfect exposure in the foreground. I have had some great results using this on bright days with the sun shining through the clouds and captured some stunning images. As always with gobe you get a high quality case to store it in and the addition of 5 trees planted. Overall an impressive filter and would definitely recommend.
★★★★★
Size: 77mm | Verified Purchase
You can tell just from the packaging and protective case that this is a quality product, when dealing with photography there is no point having an expensive lens if yo are going to use cheap filters. This filter does not degrade the image in any way, its gradient is ideal for balancing sky and land lighting in landscapes and I love it. The ND8 is perfect for bringing down the brightness of skies on a bright day.
Id highly recommend this filter to those wanting a quality piece of glass on the front of their camera for landscape pictures.
★★★★★
Size: 77mm | Verified Purchase
This is a beautifully made filter again from Urth. All of theirs are. The effect for landscape photography is perfect, even with digital processing of RAW files; you get a much more controlled balance of tones to work with. I also though found it great fun to use on the beach, coming down to just below the waters edge for wide-angle portraits of the kids.
★★★★★
Size: 67mm | Verified Purchase
Through the viewfinder you won't see a great deal of difference even though this represents 3 stops of light at its top end. Described as a hard graduated filter, it is, nevertheless, reasonably subtle and very effective where you need to bring down highlights of very bright areas in the shot.
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