06-23-2010, 05:00 AM
I find graduated neutral density filters to be my most important accessory for imaging with a point and shoot these days. I really like the cokin-P system on my powershot G9, and most often use the singh-ray 2 stop soft step, and the polarizer together. I shoot RAW only with them on and find that my point and shoot really does well for snapshots. I also use the Coking X-Pro system along with the P on my big cameras with a mix of cokin and singh-ray filters. I think that the colour cast issue is over rated if you shoot in raw, and that the biggest issue is evenness of tint across the sheet of material. I find the cokin to be more even than the singh ray width wise, but I like the distribution of graduation top to bottom in the singh-ray; this is important if you are stitching for panoramas.