Cheap camera filter recommendations?
Regrettaby for us as buyers, there are plenty of others out there who will sell the unsuspecting public 'factory seconds' claiming that they are 'best quality'. I had a student some time back whose CPL images were always fuzzy. It turned out that she had bought an eBay cheapie. It was replaced and she gave me the old filter for display purposes.
Here's the comparison ...... a $25 CPL filter vs a $75 CPL filter
Hope this helps
Phil from the great land Downunder
www.flickr.com/photos/ozzie_traveller/sets/
There are some occasions where an on-camera filter can achieve things that PP cannot - either cannot at all, or cannot easily achieve the result that a filter can create
The ND filter is mentioned - and 'yes' it does play a very useful role in reducing light throughput and forcing longer exposure times
The Graduated filter is very useful for many landscape photographers - and 'yes' in PP you might be able to apply a grad layer across the image to create a similar result -but if you can do it easily during exposure, why not do so?
Here's a sample (hand held so that you can see what it is doing)
The CPL filter can do things that PP cannot achieve. As well as darkening skies, it also cuts through reflections very easily - and this cannot be fixed in PP
Here's a sample ... no CPL filter in use
versus 'yes' CPL filter in use and reflections now substantially removed
Hope this helps
Phil from the great land Downunder
www.flickr.com/photos/ozzie_traveller/sets/
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