Are filters even worth buying?
Scotty wrote: Photoshop can't replicate the effects of a polarizer. It also can't recover blown out details. It can't slow down your shutter speed when trying to do landscapes.
Filters are absolutely necessary.
Do it right the 1st time. It's also more rewarding that way. lol, i'd say some are extremely outdated. I cant believe some of the filters that brands like Cokin and others still sell. They sell filters that (when applied) makes your photos look straight out of the 70's lol..Street Shark wrote: So would you say some filters are obsolete?
like your looking through those massive pinkish rose colored sunglasses. 
Many cheap looking effects filters that just take any credibility at all away from the photo and the photographer lol 
Karl Wertanen wrote:
lol, i'd say some are extremely outdated. I cant believe some of the filters that brands like Cokin and others still sell. They sell filters that (when applied) makes your photos look straight out of the 70's lol..Street Shark wrote: So would you say some filters are obsolete?
Like people that buy Holga cameras. Cult following.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
Street Shark wrote: Well I guess it just shows there is a market for just about anything then
lol welcome to the internet.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
Oh yea, It's already startedScotty wrote:
Karl Wertanen wrote:
lol, i'd say some are extremely outdated. I cant believe some of the filters that brands like Cokin and others still sell. They sell filters that (when applied) makes your photos look straight out of the 70's lol..Street Shark wrote: So would you say some filters are obsolete?
Like people that buy Holga cameras. Cult following.
I would normaly say yes but all the ones i used to see on my local camera shops shelves (before they went out of business) were literaly from the 70's and still on the shelvesStreet Shark wrote: Well I guess it just shows there is a market for just about anything then
The print on their wrapping was old and faded... Been on the shelves for decades. Karl Wertanen wrote:
I would normaly say yes but all the ones i used to see on my local camera shops shelves (before they went out of business) were literaly from the 70's and still on the shelvesStreet Shark wrote: Well I guess it just shows there is a market for just about anything then
Adray's?
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
Feldmans Camera in Wyandotte. Went out of business about 7-8 years ago and they finally knocked the building down a year or 2 ago. Was on the corner of Oak and 3rd right in front of Midwest Camera Repair.... The north west corner. Great people ran the place, great darkroom prints, and alot of used and new cameras/lenses and other related stuff. Ma and Pa shops are the best.Scotty wrote:
Karl Wertanen wrote:
I would normaly say yes but all the ones i used to see on my local camera shops shelves (before they went out of business) were literaly from the 70's and still on the shelvesStreet Shark wrote: Well I guess it just shows there is a market for just about anything then
Adray's?
So you are really saying you're into photography and not creative graphic design/art?studioaphoto wrote: I still use filters. Mostly polarizers and ND. I still have a lot of the filters I've had since the 80's and love to use them. I like to do as little work in Photoshop as possible. Don't get me wrong, I love PS and use it, but there is something for me that makes me feel closer to my work when I can do most of the work with the camera and just touch it up in PS or the lab after...
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