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Filters: To Stack Or Not to Stack Is it wise to stack a circular polarizing filter and a skylight filter on my lens, or should I use them individually? If it's okay, what order should I stack them?
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Dave Cross |
Hi Angel. It's not normally advisable to stack filters. You tend to get vignetting (darkening at the corners) caused by the lens actually seeing the edge of the second filter. That said, if you have a digital SLR with a smaller sensor than 35mm you may get away with it. The order in which you stack the filters should make little difference. Cheers.
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Jon Close |
Vignetting with stacked filters will be more likely with wide angle lenses than telephotos. Stacked filters increase the risk of flare from the additional glass surfaces. Using a warming filter (skylight, 81-series, etc.) along with a polarizer is popular enough that some makers make a combined them into a single "warming polarizer" filter. Hoya has a combined UV-Polarizer (see http://www.thkphoto.com/products/hoya/gf-05.html). Tiffen makes a Warm Polarizer utilizing their 812 warming filter (http://www.tiffen.com/Filter_&_Lens_Brochure/BFILT_06_07.htm). Schneider B+W make a Warm Tone Polarizer combining Skylight filter (http://www.schneideroptics.com/filters/filters_for_still_photography/polarizers/). The so-called "Moose Filter," made by Hoya to Moose Peterson's specs, combines a polarizer with 81a warming filter (http://www.moose395.net/gear/moosefltr.html).
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