Filter question

[gasitman]

While looking for a polorizer and and a 81a I came across one of these Moose filters that are a combination of both. Anyone use this? Is it just as good as the two filters or should I just pony up the extra $$$ for the two of them sepratly? Here is one on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=7516947280&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT

[DaveG]

While looking for a polorizer and and a 81a I came across one of these Moose filters that are a combination of both. Anyone use this? Is it just as good as the two filters or should I just pony up the extra $$$ for the two of them sepratly? Here is one on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=7516947280&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT


With digital a warming filter is not needed at all. In some ways it can hurt, if for example you ar shooting in jpeg format. If you are shooting in RAW then you still have the ability to to correct the white balance later if you choose to do so.

With film a warming filter was all you could do. And the earlier slide films were blue, especially in the shadows. It was warm-it-up at the time of shooting or spend a lot of money later.

Although having the warming with a circular Polarizer is interesting, I think that I'd prefer the neutral colour that I'd get from a conventional circular Polarizing filter. That leaves all my options open and I don't have a start point - even in RAW - with a colour cast.

If you do feel that you need an 81A you also have to ask yourself if you want to lose the two stops of exposure every time you use this filter. When you want a polarizing effect it's the price you pay, but the filter factor of a conventional 81A is negligible (1/3 stop?), and that should be taken into account. Polarizing filters also have big problems with super wide angle lenses. It's not only the potential vignetting but if you cover 90 degrees of sky you are going to see that one side is a lot more blue than the other! Again if you are looking for a warming effect only the Polarizing aspect of this filter might get in the way.

Right now the filters that I think still are needed with digital are UV/Skylight filters for front element protection; Polarizers that darken the blue sky in a different way than Photoshop can; and solid neutral density filters to knock down exposures when long shutterspeeds are needed. Coloured filters, split colour or split neutral density filters, and so forth have results that are better achieved in Photoshop. The silly filters (multi-prism & so forth) were silly with film and no less so with digital. I didn't own them then then & I don't own them now.

[gasitman]

I appricate that, but I am shooting a film camera, I should of mentioned that. :confused:

[DaveG]

I appricate that, but I am shooting a film camera, I should of mentioned that. :confused:
Yeah, since this is a digital forum that might have been a material point.

[gasitman]

Um, someone moved it in here, it was in corner the pros. Not sure why it was moved in the wrong forum. :rolleyes:

[tim]

You've posted the same question in 2 forums, which is frowned upon, and will end up getting you less replies than if you'd posted it just once.

[gasitman]

That was a accident, and I cannot figure out how to delete it.