DolDer X-pro Series 82mm Slim Neutral Density 1000 ND1000 Filter

Thought I'd dip my toe in the silky smooth water a filter like this can achieve so didn't want to spend much at this stage. This filter had few, but very positive reviews, and for the extremely reasonable price I thought I'd give it a go. Long story short, zero complaints, great performance and well exceeded my expectations.The filter itself is very slim and well made - only time will tell how the glass stands up to the rigours of the camera bag. The filter comes in a small plastic case that has some slightly rubbery sponge with a cut-out to hold it in place. I noticed another reviewer said that there was nothing to hold the filter in place - this has not been my experience. The plastic case is not very strong but will certainly protect the filter from knocks and scratches.Everyone knows what type of images can be had from these filters so little point including anything like that, but what people are more interested in is colour cast and any image degradation. I've done numerous test shots and found it has performed very consistently delivering just slightly over 10 stops on average. Depending on lighting (natural vs artificial) I've found it has given between 10 and 10 1/3 stops, so I set my exposure calculator to 10 1/4 stops and that gets me in the sweet spot.Colour cast is minimal and is just a slight shift towards blue. I found that by shifting the white balance up by 225K towards the warmer end of things got the shots right back where they need to be.Looking more closely at the images I could find very little (if any) difference in the sharpness of the shots with the filter, compared to without.I've included a few images to show what I've mentioned above. These are all jpg conversions of the original RAW files with no sharpening or other processing other than a default tone curve. The images were shot with a fixed WB of 3000K and for the image where I have shifted the WB to match the non-filter version, the WB was set at 3225K. Apologies for the boring subject matter, but a least you won't be distracted by some amazing seascape or sunset!

This was a reluctant purchase really because I hadn’t heard of this brand and didn’t want to spend money on something that was going to decrease the quality of my image. This filter doesn’t! It’s great. Recommended

This is the only 10 stop ND filter I could find that would screw into the front of the M.ZUIKO 14-42mm kit lens that came with my E-M10 Mk2. After a few days of hand holding a larger square 10 stop filter in front of my lens I really needed this.The fact that it's cheap as chips didn't really put me off as I had noticed in the description that it's made of optical glass and not resin, now although this doesn't guarantee good quality, it does at least set you off in the right direction as optical glass filters are nearly always better than resin filters.It comes in a very nice, sturdy storage case which has foam inside to stop it getting scratched and rattling about.Okay, so how does it perform? Brilliantly is the answer! There is zero colour cast, no effect on image quality and it delivers it's 10 stop promise, am I happy with my purchase? Absolutely, this gets 2 thumbs up from me.

I always wanted to try ND1000 filters but the top brands can be quite expensive, especially for something that I wouldn't use that much anyway;After reading some reviews on Amazon and on other websites it seemed like this one was worth a shot, and indeed it's exceeding all expectations.Using a 24-70mm 2.8 canon lens, this filter is not degrading sharpness and is not showing any significant colour cast or vignetting having a very slim profile; It screws on the lens thread smoothly and so far I've tested it in broad daylight, allowing me for exposures longer than 5 minutes at 50iso and f16 (see attached).

The filter it's self looks good though I've not tested it yet I will write a review once I've had a chance to test it.The thing that concerns me is the filter holder box usually there is a circular holder for the filter.But in this case the filter is just left to move around in the plastic box and I think that's a little poor.

Despite the odd name, this Munich-designed Chinese filter seems to be a fine copy of the B+W German made equivalent selling for five times as much. It has very thin ND glass, an ultra-slim metal rim, multicoating and about the most neutral colour I've found. Only complaint is that it's perhaps only ND 9.5 not 10, compared to some other makes - but it doesn't turn the shot magenta and has effective infra-red suppression.

great filter for this price range! Works a treat!