€5 Hack For Thrifty Photographers – Make A 10 Stop Filter

I keep an eye on a Flickr photostream by Victor Walsh. He covers quite a variety of subjects with professionalism. He just posted this hack with some parts he bought from eBay. The total cost was €5. Simply put, he glued some stuff together and got a great result – a 10 Stop Filter.

Here is the shot he accomplished with this hack with his own words.

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I finally got round to trying out my homemade 10 stop filter. I glued a cheap eBay ND filter onto a 10 stop welders glass. Total cost €5. Not the best landscape but good enough for a test. Next time i will reduce my ISO to 100 and lengthen the exposure to 30 secs or more.

You can accomplish this with some simple “hackery” with this shopping list:

1. Welding Glass €1.50
2. Filter €2.00
3. Superlgue €0.50
4. Postage €1.00

Simple!! But a clever use of resources in this economy.

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