Filter Stacking Order

Hello! My first post here. I was wondering if there were recommended stacking orders for filters. I currently have a Hoya HMC UV filter and a Hoya linear polarizer attached through a G3 Lensmate adapter. It seems to me that it would be less bothersome to have the uv filter on first - that way I can attached or detach the polarizer as needed. But I am not sure, so can any more knowledgeable member of the forums speak out? Thanks in advance!

you got it right

i personally leave both on at the same time - prob not ideal but works all the same (in so far as my amateur/hobbyist eye can see anyway)

hope this helps

Personlay, I leave my polarizer on my lens attachment all the time, and if I want a shot without using the polarizer I just quickly take it off the camera then pop it back on. It sounds like the stacking order you are using makes sense though.

In this case, it really doesn't make sense to have 2 filters on at the same time, especially if one of them is a UV. If you're doing it for convenience, and you insist on using a UV filter all the time, then it really doesn't matter in which order you put them on.

I had a uv filter and a polorizer stacked on top of that, at full wide angle you will get vingetting.

Shannon

Maybe not the best place for this question but it may get an answer. Why use a UV filter? My understinding was they were designed to warm up the tones of a pictures when using daylight film.

What is the advantage with a digital camera since you can do the colour balance correction with the camera or software?

Thanks for the info,

Carl

hi,

UV is used to cut out haze during daylight in so far as i know.

hope this helps

UV/Haze filter

saqib wrote:
hi,

UV is used to cut out haze during daylight in so far as i know.

hope this helps

Yes doc, you are right; at least when speaking of film. Don't really know whether the CCD reacts in the same way to filtering. I'm looking at my own B+W filter and it says "UV-HAZE FILTER" on the box. It also says - "the colourless UV filter prevents the lack of sharpness caused by UV radiation and reduces haze. Since there is no change in colour or exposure, the UV filter is well suited for protection of each lens."
I've had this Schneider filter for donkeys years, way before digital, so might not hold good for digital cameras.

Ian

As far as i know with UV filters there are hardly any noticeable examples with or without the filter on.

As soon as i buy a lens i immediately buy a UV filter and forget about it. Basically it will keep your main lens from getting dirty and scratched. If you drop your lens(heaven forbid), the UV filter will be the one getting scratched. UVs are very cheap to replace.

If you really want results on reducing HAZE buy a canon skyligt filter.

If you really want to reduce haze in Black and white photography, use a Red 25 filter. Now there will be a very big difference in Haze reduction litereally.

As soon as i bought my G3 i immediately bought an adapter tube and stuck a UV filter on it. I dont even mess. You can put the polarizer on top of the UV filter and it wont make a difference.

The only stacking order that you need to know are the close up filter stacking order.