 Barbara J. Eads |
A good lens filter. Hi I have a canon 20d with 17-85mm lens. I would like to know what is a good filter? I bought a quantaray filter from wolf cameras, and was very unhappy with the pictures. The filter seemed to make my pictures noisy. any suggestions?. Barb Eads
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Andy |
Hoya Pro 1 Super HMC (~$70) and B+W Slim Wide-Angle Multi-Coated (~$100). The non wide-angle or single coated version are less expensive. Some photographers even recommend not to use any filter on lenses. I used B+W before but now I have the Hoya on every one of my lens. Of course there are other brands. I just prefer these two. Hope this helps.
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Michael H. Cothran |
Barb, Filters serve specific purposes, and you first need to define what it is you want the filter to do. Then, choose from quality brands - Canon, B&W, to name a couple. I believe you pretty much get what you pay for in optical glass, so be prepared to pay more for a quality filter. Think...'Why buy a good Canon lens, and then put a piece of junk glass in front of it?' That said, the most common filters are UV, Haze, and Skylight. These are pretty much do-nothing filters, and are more suited just as lens protectors. I doubt if you will see any difference on your image with or without any of these three. Next is the polarizers, which eliminate reflections from certain angles from certain surfaces. Very useful outdoors, or when shooting through glass. Then there are large quantities of color correction filters, close-up diopters, and all kinds of gimmicky filters which you just can't do without. Tongue-in-cheek on the last statement! Michael H. Cothran
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