Confused about FILTERS

[arisarnado]

KENROCKWELL is full of Sh!T.. still people believe his blog like watching theonion news.

Check his About link on his site

hehe ken rockwell hater? :P
(i'm no ken rockwell lover or hater ha)

for me personally, lingaw basahon iyang site, labi na for beginners kay dili lisod i-digest
ang English niya... by that i meant dili kaayo technical terms ginagamit and if naa gali,
gi-define dayon derecho especially kanang alphabet soup sa lens like "D", "G", "AFS", etc.

in short, nindot siya na reference if gasugod pa ka ug photography.

i won't call it a piece of fecal matter kay naa man pud unod iyang mga articles.
me personally would be hypocrite if moingon ko na way ayo iyang site kay naa pud
koy nakuha labi na tong ga-research pa ko sa about SLRs pero i looked at other sites pud as reference.

if nadala ko ni Ken, ga-Nikon D40 unta ko karon. haha
(No offense to D40 users ha... running joke lng gyud na about Ken Rockwell na advocate kaayo xa sa D40. Naa pud siya point actually regarding D40.)

ako lng suggestion is that don't focus too much on ken rockwell naa pay laing
articles. dako kaayo ang internet. naa pa silang bob atkins ug fred miranda. haha

just my two cents.

[arisarnado]

You still can use ND filters at nightime for the same reasons .... taking long exposure shots.
if you want to minimize street lamp glares while wanting to have the effect of streaking
moving car lights etc. use ND filters.
If you want to take photos of fully lighted bldgs as background while at the same time wanting to take a good crisp exposure of the foreground, you still can use GND filters.


UV filters are more useful as lens protection. you can abuse wiping it without worrying of permanent damage. you can replace it anytime. I find the Lens hood more useful than the uv filter as far as protection is concern.

for those who would want to use filters, make up your mind which lens serves you best so you wont end up buying filters on different sizes. that if you want to save.

ah, i see. pwede ra diay. hmm... naa pud ko nakita nga site na iya pud ni giingon hehe
thanks bro

[dbgg1979]

ken rockwell is a hate it or love it website. He does have some points and years of experience to back up some of his claims. It just so happened that someone in this thread mentioned about which should come first, UV or the CPL then I remembered Ken's article about how to spot an amateur. He does have a point however about not stacking UV with CPL. Please ignore the rest of what he said in that article. Oooooooorrrrrr did the article get to you in a wrong way? I hope not.

Anyway, let's keep this discussion "educational" and avoid short one liner comments.

KENROCKWELL is full of Sh!T.. still people believe his blog like watching theonion news.

Check his About link on his site


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Read this site at your own risk. I make a lot of mistakes. I have no proof-reader and there are plenty of pages, like this one, which have been around since the 1990s and may no longer apply or be correct. I'm just one guy. No matter how stupid something may be, if I don't catch it, it gets out there anyway and stays wrong for years until someone points it out. I can't track everything; I've written thousand of pages and write a few more every day.

If you find anything out of whack, please let me know, since there are a lot more of you than there are of me.

[dbgg1979]

basin parehas ramo ug gi tanaw nga site?

ah, i see. pwede ra diay. hmm... naa pud ko nakita nga site na iya pud ni giingon hehe
thanks bro

[vanix09]

basin parehas ramo ug gi tanaw nga site?

haha! mao jud.. xD

[lemreyes]

for those who would want to use filters, make up your mind which lens serves you best so you wont end up buying filters on different sizes. that if you want to save.

I would recommend to buy the filter size which would fit on your biggest lens. Then use step-up rings for your smaller diameter lenses.
You can save by doing these since you wont have to buy different sizes of filters.