ND filters for serious shooters

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If your choose to get the advanced (and more expensive) "creative combo" option together with your new DJI Pocket-2, it may seem that you will have just about every imaginable option:
camera cover, mini control stick, two smartphone (Lightning/IOS + USB-C / Android) adapters, charging splitter cable, tripod mount, wireless microphone, remote mic windscreen, wrist strap, do-it-all handle, and even wide angle lens.

What else you may ever need to enjoy this gadget at full potention, right?
Wrong !

If you been in video shooting a bit longer than a month or two, you have probably have heard about Neutral-density (ND) filters.
While it seem like geeky & unnecessary luxury, in fact these filters are probably the next most important thing you may want to get as your "combo pack" upgrade.

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Not only it will make your video, shooted on a bright sunny day, much more natural and pleasant to watch, but it may be also a very handy tool in a better quality timelapse and hyperlapse creations.

While the top enthusiasts go for 8, 10 or 12 piece packs, even a smaller range of 4 or 6 pieces will be sufficient to cover 80+% of your shooting situations.

I decided to go for a medium 6 pieces pack, which I found on Amazon

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Five different levels of density, plus one fully transparent polarized glass, all together for €62 including delivery. That is roughly €10 per filter, not so bad IMHO.

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This handy tool from NEEWER came packet in a beautiful, snappy transparent protection box, and arrived in less than six days after payment.
These lenses are really tiny, and a bit difficult to handle ( and I don't think I am a thick-finger man)

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Perhaps few more important options would be a good retractable selfie stick and long-leg tripod.
But those I already had from the past, the rugged DJI stick and MANFROTTO tripod.

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