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For still photographs you do not need an ND filter. Of any strength.
For video you will apparently need a selection of different strength, but I have never found a need for one, I don't suffer from the so called Jello effect that so many talk about, so in my experience an ND is not necessary for video either.
However the Polariser is a very different animal. It can affect your image in many different ways, the main ones being to increase colour saturation, especially the blue of the sky, however it's effect is variable and normally when you use one on a ground based camera you will rotate the filter around the lens axis until you get the effect you want, but in the air you cannot rotate the filter around the lens axis, so you will have no real control over its effect. Also the P3 lens is very wide angle and will cover 90 or more degrees from edge to edge. The sky will be at it's bluest, if you have the filter correctly orientated, at 90 degrees to the sun, and as you move away from this angle it will become progressively lighter blue, this will just look strange and totally unnatural in your photo.
So use of the polariser will prove to be almost totally random unless you continually take off, take a photo, land, rotate the filter a few degrees, and then take off, snap the same scene from the same place, and then repeat, and repeat.
I am looking for a graduated ND filter, but have not been able to find one, yet.If anyone knows where these can be purchased please attach a link.
No filters used in this shot.
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