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I have Cokin Filters too - both Series 'A' and series 'P' from the 'old days' when I used to use film. Then seven years ago I moved to digital photography using a Kodak Compact (DX6440), until this year, when I moved to a Nikon D3000. Since I don't do pro work anymore, I have no use for a Mamiya film-based medium format SLR Camera or a Hassel'blad' film-based Medium Format SLR. I still have my film-based Pentax ME-Super (which still works) plus, as I say a set of cokin grads and other filters. These, I have found are useful on the Nikon using a step-up ring (from 49mm to 52mm) and they work great using rainbow affects, Stars (both four-point and eight-point type) and fog filters. Obviously, the Neutral Density filters are of more use when holding back camera time to get an affect like water the colour of milk or waterfalls looking like barley-sugar etc, but any filter has a use when enhancing say, a sunset, or making a sky blue when cloud is blanketing the sky. At night, highlights are transformed into star-like affects with a star filter - so long as you don't overdo it and make a photograph more like a kaleidoscope affect! The rainbow affect can be better achieved on photoshop though, as one can place where the rainbow is to make the most impact and I guess this is where Photoshop scores most of the time over filters as most affects can be reproduced in this package. One thing I have noticed is the high price one pays for Cokin as well as ND and Polarising filters these days compared to several years ago. I guess I've saved a packet with the collection of filters i've got! I wondered about Cokin going bust - since I don't see them around much anymore. Maybe its true...Northumbrian1
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