Hello,

New to OM 1. Has anyone used the cameras neutral density filter?Wondering if it works to cut ambiance light for shallow depth of field shots.

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1 hour ago, Jeanie said:

Hello,

New to OM 1. Has anyone used the cameras neutral density filter?Wondering if it works to cut ambiance light for shallow depth of field shots.

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For ambient light shots it should be fine, but it doesn't work with flash as it takes multiple very short exposures and combines them, so flash sync won't work and is locked out I believe. The main reason to use it UW is to stay inside flash sync speed, so it would defeat the purpose of using it. The other issue is that the fastest shutter speed is 1/60 for ND2 and it gets slower as you increase ND strength and for some subjects 1/60 might be a little slow.

A better solution is probably to use a manual flash trigger which allow you to go up to 1/400 with manual flash without running into sync problems. Combine that with low ISO extension of 100 or 80 and you'll get two stops less exposure in total at ISO80.