Filters?
Chris
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Film can only be manufactured with a specific light source in mind. Daylight film gets used in daylight right ?....but there is a wide range of colour temperatures in the daylight hours. So warming/cooling filters are used to present the film with a light temperature suited to it's specifications.
Digital sensors have very little susceptibility to these blue casts and so the UV/Skylight does nothing to benefit the image. With digital we also have control over the white balance used either at time of capture or later in PP if we want to warm or cool the image.
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More importantly, there have been instances where a filter broken whilst on a lens has actually scratched the front element.
I would not use a filter unless it were for a specific purpose that can't be achieved in photoshop. So I might use a polariser, although in practice I rarely do. I always use a lens hood as this does afford good protection to impact on the front of the lens and the front element.
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Film has a tendency to have a blue cast especially when shooting under a bright blue sky. UV and Skylight filters would remove the cast which was especially important for slide film where you could not correct the image in the printing stage.
Is this still true? I shoot colour neg (or B&W) in my Pentax 67 without UV filters and have never shot slide so I don’t have any experience. I thought maybe film had improved and this doesn’t happen any more. I also thought my lenses had enough glass to cut out the UV, but on reflection two excuses is always less convincing than one. Does anyone have a comparison?
Always a lens hood but never use a filter.
Why put another piece of glass in the way, especially when using long lenses ... There are enough other variables to contend with as it is.
Yes, agree that the new hard plastic lens hoods do offer a better level of pretection from dropping a lens and side swipes than I am used to on my lens from 35mm film days..
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Film has a tendency to have a blue cast especially when shooting under a bright blue sky. UV and Skylight filters would remove the cast which was especially important for slide film where you could not correct the image in the printing stage.
Is this still true? I shoot colour neg (or B&W) in my Pentax 67 without UV filters and have never shot slide so I don’t have any experience. I thought maybe film had improved and this doesn’t happen any more. I also thought my lenses had enough glass to cut out the UV, but on reflection two excuses is always less convincing than one. Does anyone have a comparison?
It depends on the film and the lens. I find that Ektar is fine and does not need filtration (maybe corrected at scanning/printing stage?) but even the new Ektachrome has a tendency to have a slightly blue cast. On my Yashicamat 124G I've taken to using an 81A filter to correct it. For BW film you are using filters to change the contrasts between colours so a rather different ball game.
On my digital lenses I always used to use a filter for protection because archaeological sites are incredibly dusty and dirty. I so rarely go on site any more that I have more-or-less given up on them.
K.
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What's the advice nowadays on UV filters please?
I used to have a UV filter on the lens as protection for the front element.
Are there any good makes nowadays or are they all the same and rebranded?
Does a poor filter degrade the image of these newer lenses?
I have just got an HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm ED PLM WR lens as my main lens - esp for wildlife photography (YES, I know that I will need a lonmger reach BUT need to sort out my pocket money and find a decent one at a decent price) and obviously want to protect the front of the lens.
What do you wise ones recommend please?
Grumpy GrandPa, Recently Retired.
K-S2 and suffering from a relapse and so now buying digital camera kit - started with a little Lumix TZ80 and now LBA has re-occured for my K-S2. Not sure where it will lead!
Previous addiction has resulted in using Zeniths, Yashicamat, Chinons, Minoltas, Samsungs, Fujis, Cosina, Lumix, Canon, Nikon and Pentax etc etc - have tried most makes in the past 40 years. Love cameras - love taking photos even more