Am I still so much a Luddite...

[quasigeostrophy]

...that I don't get this? If I want to blur water or otherwise drop the amount of light hitting the film, I control the shutter speed and/or the lens aperture. Hello? Does no one figure exposures anymore? Have cameras completely stopped having a Manual mode? Now, I totally understand graduated ND filters, and possibly even an occasional full one. To me, this is a sledgehammer. Particularly for $340.

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[rfrench.livejournal.com]

The price certainly seems ridiculous. Isn't this just a pair of polarizers? I would think any camera that has the ability to take removable filters would also have, at the least, settable aperture or shutter speed.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

That could be how they make it work (combining polarizers). I can understand all other kinds of filtration, but this... nah. If I need less light on the whole image, I underexpose.