ND Filter sun flare

[ColoMtn]

I bought these ND filters from Amazon to play with my GoPro 4 Silver. Doing some initial tests the filters degrade the quality of the video greatly due to sun flare. Do the ND Filters need a hood to reduce glare? or are these filter just cheap and buying a more expensive Glass filter would work without needing a hood.

Thanks

 

[Pedals2Paddles]

No. That's just a crappy Chinese knockoff plastic junk filter. Waste if money. You get what you pay for with this stuff. Stick with the real ones like Polar Pro, Peau, and Snake River.

 

[treesmokingdroneflyingguy]

I use the sandmarc polarizer kit.
Has nd4-16 with a polarizer, haven't had any kind of sun flare issues

 

[Maddog]

I'm thinking it's the quality of the filters. I bought a set of 6 Polar Pro filters on Amazon for $99.99.
They work beautifully, much better than what I'm seeing in the pics you posted.
Six filters for $18 would be a red flag to me.
PolarPro Drone Filter 6-Pack Professional Edition-For GoPro Hero4, Hero3+, Hero3 Amazon.com : PolarPro Drone Filter 6-Pack Professional Edition-For GoPro Hero4, Hero3+, Hero3 : Camera & Photo

 

[ColoMtn]

I use the sandmarc polarizer kit.
Has nd4-16 with a polarizer, haven't had any kind of sun flare issues

Is this the set? Did you have to do any further gimble balancing with this set?

**gimble

 

[treesmokingdroneflyingguy]

Nah. That's the first one I tried. Lol
Look up sandmarc polarizer lens
It'll be a lens kit with 4
And I believe they're so lightweight it barely effects the gimbal. Not sure though being I'm a fixed mount flyer. Lol

 

[ColoMtn]

Ended up buying the Sandmarc set and it has absolutely no sun glare. It was just definitely just cheap lens’s on the first set