It's getting to the point if you shoot in RAW you can fix, colorize, enhance and mimic just about every filter on the market. By blending exposures you can get the same effect as the ND grads as well. I think there's a heavy learning curve whether you're doing it with filters or doing it in Photoshop so it's kind of whatever direction you want to go. BTW I wouldn't recommend putting cheap UV filters over multi-hundred dollar lenses as they will affect the image quality. Stick with B&W or Hoya SMC's, stay away from Sunpak/tiffen - you get what you pay for!
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