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What are Filters and Why Should You Use Them? Filter Material – Glass vs Resin Filters.Reverse Graduated Neutral Density (GND) Filter.

Soft-Edge Graduated Neutral Density (GND) Filter.

Hard-Edge Graduated Neutral Density (GND) Filter.

Neutral Density (ND) vs Graduated Neutral Density (GND) Filter.

What are Filters and Why Should You Use Them?.

Even in that case though, I know when to remove it and for what reason. In this case, it's the one lens I do keep a protective filter mounted most of the time. That action can often take fluid or contaminants with it as it retracts. In the case of my 16-35 f4, the front element retracts into the lens body as you zoom.

Just because the bullet-resistant glass survives don't mean the ordinary glass did anything.Īgain, not the type of protection we are speaking of. I fire a bullet at a piece of bullet-resistant glass with a piece of ordinary crown glass in front of it. Here's an example of your logic taken to extremes. That said, impact damage is not what I think protective filters are really designed to guard against. You don't really know that as the additional force absorbed by the filter may have positively helped regards the final outcome.

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What this event actually shows is that the filter was fragile and easily broken while the very robust build of the pro grade 70-200 VR was tough enough to survive. Having said all that, I go back to my original point that for most people the filter or not will matter NOT ONE BIT and is still an overblown topic. I get pelted by small pebbles, sand and dirt constantly in my NASCAR shooting to the point that my hair, clothes, and camera are darkened and still no scratches on the lens itself. Never once have I dropped my camera and lens in a significant matter and certainly not in the unique way it would take for the filter to (possibly) save the camera. When I used to use filters based on my previous thinking I would on too numerous occasions get flare and greatly decreased contrast from the sun or some other bright light source being too close from the axis. When I on assignment I have to produce the best photographs in situations (sports) where there are no do-overs. It might have made slightly more sense when film was the medium and UV filtering meant something. That's what has been driven into beginner's heads for at least since I was a little kid and probably much longer. I would also note that there can be large differences in quality within the same manufactures line. Here is a shot into the sun but only one of the images was taken with a filter on the lens, while the rest are shot without a filter of any kind.īest to learn when a filter can be of help to a particular result and when it can hurt. Here you can see how a quality filter (not necessarily expensive) can do a job without having any negative affect on IQ

That is actually a very good example of how a poor quality filter can cause problems.even in one designed to be used for only protective purposes. They generally offer some limited protection as well. They don't provide much in the way of protection as they're just flimsy pieces of glass.Ī hood, on the other hand, reduces the likelihood of flare and reduced contrast. Here's a deliberately extreme test someone ran a while back : The reason many of us don't like filters is that they increase the likelihood of flare and reduced contrast and other optical problems ( that you can't fix in post processing ).

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