Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A 1A in black and white is well known death to skin tones smart people switched to UV filters I think in the mid 60's. Maybe it was the early 70's. Mark William Rabiner > From: TCB <tcb@thadbrown.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:43:08 -0600 > To: <lug@leica-users.org>, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta > <nmsbaeta@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Advice on filters > > I generally keep a 1A filter on most of my lenses all or close to all of > the > time, just for protection. I'm finding that I'm using filters less and > less as > I > get better in photoshop. Music is my first 'art' and to me it's like > tracking > and > mixing. As I've gotten better at mixing and the technology has made things > easier, I tend to track a lot drier than I used to, even when I know I'm > going > to > do X and Y when I start to mix. I still use filtersfor contrast in b+w > images, > but even that a little less often and also usually not such strong filters. > > Serious b+w shooters. Are you all using contrast filters as aggressively as > you > were in 1998, say? > > TCB > > On Thu 22/01/09 10:17 PM , Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta nmsbaeta@gmail.com > sent: >> Hello! >> >> I never used filters because I never felt the need and always avoided >> putting another piece of glass in front of a lens. But now I have two >> reasons to get some filters, so I think... >> >> * Next summer I'll be going on vacation to the North of Africa. It >> will be a one week walk and dust will be a certainty. >> >> * Whenever my wife takes a camera, the lens will end up with >> fingerprints :-( Not always, but too many times. >> >> I believe these are good reasons to buy some filters, especially when >> the lens costs (much) more than the camera. >> >> So what I want are protective filters. But after some "net >> research"I really don't know what to buy... All that I know is that a >> good >> filter will be, most probably, expensive (but certainly less expensive >> than a lens :-) Where I live, in Portugal, I have easy access to >> Hoya, Rodenstock and Sigma filters, but I can use online shops to >> purchase other brands. >> >> Feel free to comment on my reasons to buy the filters (and let me know >> if there is a barbed wire adapter as this will solve my second reason >> :-) Finally, please give me some advice on what to look for on a >> filter, which brand(s) to avoid and which brand(s) make good filters. >> >> TIA >> >> -- >> Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta >> ille nihil dubitat quem nulla scientia dictat >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information