Hi everyone,

I’ve ordered one of those Nitecore Blowerbaby BB2 Electronic Cleaning Air Blower for Camera and Lens, try saying that fast 🙂 . Could be a useful bit of kit. I don’t think that I’d take it everywhere with me as my small air blower and lens pen usually do the job and are a lot more compact and lighter but for thoroughly cleaning my kit, particularly the camera’s nooks and crannies back at base or maybe taking out with me if I’m going to be somewhere particularly dusty, like a beach, I think that it would do a pretty thorough job judging by what I’ve seen of it in use. I’ll post when I’ve tried it out, not the cheapest bit of gear but hopefully a worthwhile purchase. Main features are: rechargeable (USB C), 3 air speeds, air intake filter , cleaning brush and flashlight although I’m not sure how often I’ll be using that. I wouldn’t use it on the camera’s sensor though but rather for the camera bodies, lenses and filters etc. and anything else that needs a good dust like my keyboard, my ageing record collection (note I didn’t say vinyl) or maybe the whole room for that matter! 🙂 . Hell if it’s no good I’ve got myself a Star Trek communicator look-alike, how cool is that!. 🙂 Beam me up Scotty.

Best wishes,

Leigh

Hi everyone,

Although I have quite a few filters which I rarely use, mostly ND and CPL filters from different manufacturers, I thought I’d give this filter a try. For some time I’ve been a fan of Marumi filters which I think are well built and very good value for money. Until recently I didn’t know that Marumi have been making filters for sixty or so years in Japan so they should know a thing or two about things. I read a lot about their Super DHG polariser which has got some very favourable reviews across the board and I thought I’d give one a try. I used it for the first time yesterday on my trip to West Wittering and I think that it’s one of the best, quite possibly the best CPL filter, that I’ve tried. I cannot detect any colour shift apart from the obvious increased saturation of warm tones. One reason that I don’t very often use any filter that will reduce the light hitting the sensor is because I shoot handheld HDR and don’t want to introduce longer shutter speeds. This one costs one approximately 1 1/2 stops, but on a nice sunny 🙂 but deceptively cold 😞 day like yesterday that’s not too much of an issue. Lighting conditions permitting I think that I’ll definitely be shooting more with this filter.

As always, my opinions, not sponsored in any way and paid for out of my own pocket.

Kind regards

Leigh

PS. You know that I’m just shooting with my 20mm Lumix lens. None of the images I’ve posted using this lens have been cropped in post, they’re framed exactly as taken, a very versatile focal length.