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Filter recomendation
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OlafS
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Hello Paul,
I keep an UV or skylight filter always on my lens for protection. The only additional filter I use is a polarizer to get deep blue skys or avoid reflections in water. Most other creative effects can be achieved later using Photoshop, if you like.
Make sure you have a good filters. In my view the multi-coated B+W and Nikon filters are the best, Hoya are also OK, but difficult to clean.
I wish you a pleasant vacation with a lot of excellent pics.
I keep an UV or skylight filter always on my lens for protection. The only additional filter I use is a polarizer to get deep blue skys or avoid reflections in water. Most other creative effects can be achieved later using Photoshop, if you like.
Make sure you have a good filters. In my view the multi-coated B+W and Nikon filters are the best, Hoya are also OK, but difficult to clean.
I wish you a pleasant vacation with a lot of excellent pics.
- Olaf
THomasAdams
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I would also add taking an ND filter, Nuetral density, great for long exposures during daylight.
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Olaf,
I am also looking for filter as protection. Why Nikon filter is best ? Is it super multi-coated ? How much does it cost ? Why Hoya is just OK and difficuilt to clean ?
Thanks.
I am also looking for filter as protection. Why Nikon filter is best ? Is it super multi-coated ? How much does it cost ? Why Hoya is just OK and difficuilt to clean ?
Thanks.
John M. Polston
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Spend the few extra $$ and go with B+W MRC filters. They are worth the money. Why, because I have owned the Top of the line Hoyas and others and I have always gone back to B+W. If you want the cleanest filters then get the MRC B+W's. I wash them under filtered water with diluted mild soap and if you do it right, the water will run off the filter leaving no smudges or any water spots. All you will have to do is to dry the edges. I tried the same with the Hoya's and it would not work and could never get a brand new filter clean. How to test this is to get a bright flash light and hold the filters over the beam and you will see the haze/residue on the filters. The B+W's have always been the clearest filters to me.
JP
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Ching-Kuang Shene
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If you are not in the lens protection school, you only need the following: polarizer, various grade neutral density (ND) filters and gradual ND filters. The effects brought to you by these three filters cannot be (or at least very difficult) to replicate by image editing system. If you buy the lens protection idea, you'd better also buy a collapsible rubber lens hood because rubber can absorb more impact force than a filter can.
CK
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam
Nikon Coolpix 950/990/995/2500/4500/5700 User Guide
As already mentioned, a polarizer is a must, a grey graduated cokin filter for too bright sky and a protector filter as UV or skylight. I know some will disagree with the protector filter, but I do not want to take any risk with expensive lenses.
The polarizer cuts light already by 2 stops, so I am still resisting buying a ND filter.
Cheers
Jacques
OlafS
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Nikon like B+W are excellent workmanship, you get them off the lens easy even after 10 years, the glass is excellent and they are available multi coated.
Regarding HOYA, I suspect it's because of their coating, I just can only move the dust but never get it off the lens, they act like a magnet. I ended up using an expensive cleaning fluid and lint-free tissue and a lot of patience.
Has anybody found a good solution for cleaning Hoyas?
Regarding HOYA, I suspect it's because of their coating, I just can only move the dust but never get it off the lens, they act like a magnet. I ended up using an expensive cleaning fluid and lint-free tissue and a lot of patience.
Has anybody found a good solution for cleaning Hoyas?
- Olaf
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The polarizer effect can be easily and satisfactorily reproduced in Photoshop while the ND filter can not - at least not very easily. If you shoot your pics without the polarizer filter, you can decide in front of your computer which of them looks better under this effect. BTW, playing with the curve effect on PS also gives very similar effect to the polarizer.
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Shmuel
gooseberry
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I've found the lens pen cleans Hoya filters very well.
Donatas
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I do not own polarizer filter but from reading web I am sure software CAN NOT reproduce polarizer effect.
there are examples
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/polarizer.html
there are examples
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/polarizer.html
Alfian Noor
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But you can not do the reflection dampening effect in photoshop.
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Travis G VanDenBerg
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I use a Fram 2682 and change my oil every 3000 miles....seems like a good filter to me.
OlafS
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- Olaf
As previously mentioned, get a circular polarizer. It will make a stunning difference in your images.
A graduated ND filter will help long landscape shots, particularly in the mountains. When you are shooting mountains in the distance, they tend to be underexposed, while your foreground is properly exposed. See http://www.tiffen.com/color_grad_filters_pics.htm near the bottom of the page at the Color-Grad ND filter example pics to see what I mean.
I took a mountain trip last fall, and wish I'd gotten a ND filter before I went. I'm leaving next week to go back, and I need to order one before I go.
On my last trip, I also took the Tiffen Enhancing filter to boost the reds in the fall folliage. It worked really well. For samples of this filter, see http://www.tiffen.com/enhancing_filter_pics.htm . This might come in handy if you are going to a part of the mountains where there's a fair amount of red in the rocks. It worked really well on the red aspens.
Good luck.
pjordan
PS: I've had good luck with tiffen filters. I know a lot of folks on this forum prefer other brands. I'm pointing out the links above b/c they are pretty good illustrations of what the filters do. I don't work or sell for Tiffen, so please don't consider this spam.
A graduated ND filter will help long landscape shots, particularly in the mountains. When you are shooting mountains in the distance, they tend to be underexposed, while your foreground is properly exposed. See http://www.tiffen.com/color_grad_filters_pics.htm near the bottom of the page at the Color-Grad ND filter example pics to see what I mean.
I took a mountain trip last fall, and wish I'd gotten a ND filter before I went. I'm leaving next week to go back, and I need to order one before I go.
On my last trip, I also took the Tiffen Enhancing filter to boost the reds in the fall folliage. It worked really well. For samples of this filter, see http://www.tiffen.com/enhancing_filter_pics.htm . This might come in handy if you are going to a part of the mountains where there's a fair amount of red in the rocks. It worked really well on the red aspens.
Good luck.
pjordan
PS: I've had good luck with tiffen filters. I know a lot of folks on this forum prefer other brands. I'm pointing out the links above b/c they are pretty good illustrations of what the filters do. I don't work or sell for Tiffen, so please don't consider this spam.
Thanks to all who responded, great information. I went and bought a Kenko Circular Pl today before I got to read your posts with brand recommendations. Hope it workks out.
Thanks again,
Paul
Thanks again,
Paul
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