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Where to buy welding glass?

PopeBuckfastXVI · 2010-08-23 09:36:16

Hi All, Was out yesterday evening messing with some long exposures and it got me thinking about the people on here who use welding glass for daytime long exposures - my ND8 was giving me about 30 seconds in the evening light. Anyone care to share where I can pick some up? Thanks in advance!

23-08-2010 10:36am

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Hi All,

Was out yesterday evening messing with some long exposures and it got me thinking about the people on here who use welding glass for daytime long exposures - my ND8 was giving me about 30 seconds in the evening light.

Anyone care to share where I can pick some up?

Thanks in advance!

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#2 23-08-2010 1:01pm

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Any DIY or hardware shops should have them, I picked up 4 a few months ago for €3. Haven't really used them much though

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#3 23-08-2010 1:49pm

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ebay

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#4 23-08-2010 2:06pm

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Do a search for posts by Longshanks, he posted a thread a year or so ago about welding glass and he included a link to an eBay seller.

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#5 23-08-2010 2:13pm

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Heiton-Buckley or Chadwicks should have it.

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#6 23-08-2010 2:43pm

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Cheers all!

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#7 23-08-2010 2:50pm

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Got one on ebay from a crowd in monaghan - 3.50 bargain!

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#8 23-08-2010 3:17pm

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PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Hi All,

Was out yesterday evening messing with some long exposures and it got me thinking about the people on here who use welding glass for daytime long exposures - my ND8 was giving me about 30 seconds in the evening light.

Anyone care to share where I can pick some up?

Thanks in advance!

I can't imagine the optical properties being very good!

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#9 23-08-2010 3:18pm

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PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Got one on ebay from a crowd in monaghan - 3.50 bargain!

By windows in that shop !

€1 I paid :P

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#10 24-08-2010 10:21pm

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#13 welding glass.€1.20 from Brownlow in Cork.
http://www.arbrownlow.com/index.html

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#11 24-08-2010 10:27pm

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Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Do a search for posts by Longshanks, he posted a thread a year or so ago about welding glass and he included a link to an eBay seller.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055676409
^ and the broken link was for this
Bought mine on ebay from a seller called dark mullen or mullet or something. Think it was 1.50 inc postage from UK

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#12 24-08-2010 10:47pm

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Two from last year with the welding mask. I found it very difficult to get rid of the green tinge. The castle is a 40 sec exposure while the river is 25 seconds, both on a bright sunny day.

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#13 24-08-2010 10:55pm

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The green tint is difficult to remove alright. This was probably my best effort at a colour version. I convert them to B&W every other time!

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#14 24-08-2010 10:56pm

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pullandbang wrote: »

Two from last year with the welding mask. I found it very difficult to get rid of the green tinge. The castle is a 40 sec exposure while the river is 25 seconds, both on a bright sunny day.

kev_Longshanks100 wrote: »

The glass cost me €2 via ebay. Fantastic value :D:D
The original was totally green, but i was able to correct this from the RAW editor

Did ya shoot in RAW Denis? :pac:

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#15 24-08-2010 11:13pm

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I found the white balance tool in Camera raw of photoshop was fairly good at getting rid of the green tinge if you shoot RAW that is.

I found that holding the welding glass in front of the lens was a right pain using elastics and very fiddly.

I bought an ultra cheapo UV filter off of some e bay hong kong shop for about 3 euros. I smashed the glass out of it and attached it to the face of the welding glass with blu tack around the outside of the UV filter frame.
It really works a treat

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#16 24-08-2010 11:26pm

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You can use the Cokin Universal filter holder to hold the welding glass in place. Turns out they fit perfectly.

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#17 25-08-2010 12:26am

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pullandbang wrote: »

Two from last year with the welding mask. I found it very difficult to get rid of the green tinge. The castle is a 40 sec exposure while the river is 25 seconds, both on a bright sunny day.

I get rid of the green tinge by converting the image to Lab colour space and play with the a channel in levels. Works perfectly.

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#18 25-08-2010 1:10am

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Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Did ya shoot in RAW Denis? :pac:

Yeah, always in Raw but no matter what I did with the sliders in LR I couldn't completely kill the green tinge. Must give Swingking's suggestion a try in CS3

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#19 25-08-2010 2:06am

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To think I almost broke my back [literally] in a steel factory [yes, that is what I used to do ladies and ... erm .. ] and never got out with any welding glass ... grrrr. Course, I didn't give a damn about photography when I was actually working.

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