Cokin is a French manufacturer, founded by photographer Jean Coquin in 1978, and is famous for inventing the square filter system for cameras. With such a long-standing pedigree in the filter space and kicking off the square format altogether, I was delighted to try out a set of Nuances Extreme filters, as well as an NX filter holder.
On test, I had three Nuances Extreme Z-Pro graduated ND filters; the GND8 S soft grad, the C-GND8 'center' grad with the darkest area in the middle of the filter for use when the sun is right on the horizon at dawn or dusk, and the R-GND S 'reverse' grad that is also darker at the center but with a more gradual fall-off towards the top edge for when the sun is visible higher in the sky. I also had an ND1024, ND64, CPL, NX filter holder, and various square and rectangular aluminum frames to fit the filters into the holder.
