What is the best filter to leave on a lens? skylight, UV, or ND
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So you prefer Rocky Mountain oysters the real thing shucked by master shucker's ............. You also have never seen a whale blow or a sturgeon breach and yes you have never made your way thru the salt marsh with a splashing dog............
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A filter is a must, for those who go to the photo, wherever it is.................
Between a skylight or UV filter, I always go with the UV. I'm not sure a skylight filter will filter out some of the UV rays. An ND filter is for situations where you need longer shutter speeds...such as slowing down the movement of water to give it a glassy appearance. An ND filter is also very helpful when the exposure is just way too bright for the settings you want to use.
A Circular Polarizer is for shooting on a sunny day...and you need to know how to make it useful by knowing which direction to point the lens in relation to the sun. A CP filter is also useful for removing reflections in store windows.
I own all 3 types of filters (and use both B&W and Hoya brands). Each filter (UV, skylight, or CP) has specific uses so I take off a filter when I need to use a different one. Stacking them one on top of the other might create vignetting. And when shopping for filters, if it is going to be used on a wide angle lens, they make slim profile filters. If you use a really thick (fat) filter on a wide angle, you might also experience vignetting from it.
A Circular Polarizer is for shooting on a sunny day...and you need to know how to make it useful by knowing which direction to point the lens in relation to the sun. A CP filter is also useful for removing reflections in store windows.
I own all 3 types of filters (and use both B&W and Hoya brands). Each filter (UV, skylight, or CP) has specific uses so I take off a filter when I need to use a different one. Stacking them one on top of the other might create vignetting. And when shopping for filters, if it is going to be used on a wide angle lens, they make slim profile filters. If you use a really thick (fat) filter on a wide angle, you might also experience vignetting from it.
Watched that it was crap,it backed up what been said on here a hood would give as much impact protection and in the end he couldn't prove any loss in IQ with a filter
So you're saying everything WE have said here is crap?
You obviously never REALLY watched it as he never claimed there would be a huge IQ hit. Save for the flare and ghosting examples. Or do actual photos with flare and ghosting magically not qualify as proof?
Try actually watching the entire video, not just skipping through different parts.
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Don't know what all this has to do with an Italian rock band.:indecisiveness:
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Unless you meant "pure ******* magic.":encouragement:
Where else would one go if one was to take a photo, then to the photo? If I want to take a photo of a mountain, then I'm not going to go to Miami, now will I? No one is telling you not to put a filter on your lens. You're the OP asking the question. If you don't like some of the answers that's you're problem, not mine. Personally I couldn't give two shits what you use on your lens. Hell! Put a condom on it for all I care.
I'm done with this stupid conversation.
I did not ask if a filter was needed, I ask which kind was best to leave on the lens. That said I checked my 80-200 filter today and it is scratched to hell from the thorns in the woods, so I need a new filter there too.
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You tend to have a very combative tone in so many of your comments. The people here are giving you their opinions and you have a choice to accept them or not but the thing you do not have he right to is to be insulting.
It seems that there are many opinions on filters. When I purchased my camera and lenses I bought NC filters for protection for my all of my lenses (all two of them. Ha!) This was from some recommendations that I had read. It made sense to me as I had UV filters on my film camera lenses years ago. I had also read that UV filters were not needed for digital cameras. This info may have been good or bad, but anyway that is what I had read and decided on. I then read in my search for better photos in bright situations that CP-L filters were great. I bought one for each of my lenses (as said before, all two of them. Ha!) Anyway after some time of playing, I have decided to put the NC on my 70-300 and leave the CP-L on my 18-55. Here is my reasoning: The long lens is used mostly for BIF, wildlife photos which can be spur of the moment type photos taken in any direction. The CP-L couldn't be adjusted because of the constant spinning to different directions. Ha! The CP-L does work well on the 18-55 because most of the time I have time to adjust it before taking a shot ie landscape, scenery, etc. Basically I have two lens filters that stay in my camera bag and two that stay on the lenses. Money wasted, maybe or maybe not. For me the jury is still out on it. Ha!
Argue with this. I don't care. Ha! More fun!
Argue with this. I don't care. Ha! More fun!
OH and I might add that with the CP-L filter on the 70-300 and the lens hood (I only have a hood for this lens) I couldn't get my big hand in to adjust the filter. Another reason to go with the NC on this lens. I don't own a hood for the 18-55. I am still looking to get one however.
I would give you mine, but it would cost more to mail it to you ,then you just buying one.
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When I went on vacation a month ago I knew I'd be taking a lot of landscapes with water and blue sky in them so my CPL filter basically lived on my camera for the week I was vacationing. I come back and even here I've seen no reason to take it off. This is just me though.
Strangely enough I don't find it that difficult for me to adjust it when the lens hood is on too.
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Strangely enough I don't find it that difficult for me to adjust it when the lens hood is on too.
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You're right on the cost of shipping, but are you talking about one of an 18-55 lens? I don't see that lens listed in your inventory and maybe that is why you are willing to give away a hood that you don't have a lens for. Ha!
To be honest, I have thought about the hood only because I have had a few issues with light glare spots when in the wide end of the 18-55 lens. That is the only reason. Not sure if it would help to prevent it or not.
Why are you jamming your lens into thorns in the woods?
I still have that lens, I just never use it anymore. It was at one time my favorite lens for flower shots, when I still had the D3100 and the D300. As a matter of fact I put it on my D750 a few weeks ago in DX mode for shits and giggles. It went back on the shelf.:indecisiveness:
If thorns scratch your filters, you're buying too cheap ones.
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