Filter on which lens?
Discussion
Morning all...
'Twas my birthday on Friday,over here at PBF towers and my Mother, following a few dropped hints, popped into a local photography shop & got some bits suitable for a beginner-ish type person.
So...
I now have a Hoya Skylight filter that fits my Olympus E300's stock lens quite nicely and as per Hoya's suggestion, will be left on to protect the lens.
But, she also bought me a polarising filter - but the thread size is wrong. I think she garbled what she was saying a bit & the guys in the shop probably looked up the wrong lens to get the thread size.
So I need to go change it. But as they have different thread sizes, which lens does the board think it would be better fitted to?
The 14-45m or the 55-200mm?
...and here's a gratuitous non-filtered shot from the other night that I quite like.
'Twas my birthday on Friday,over here at PBF towers and my Mother, following a few dropped hints, popped into a local photography shop & got some bits suitable for a beginner-ish type person.
So...
I now have a Hoya Skylight filter that fits my Olympus E300's stock lens quite nicely and as per Hoya's suggestion, will be left on to protect the lens.
But, she also bought me a polarising filter - but the thread size is wrong. I think she garbled what she was saying a bit & the guys in the shop probably looked up the wrong lens to get the thread size.
So I need to go change it. But as they have different thread sizes, which lens does the board think it would be better fitted to?
The 14-45m or the 55-200mm?
...and here's a gratuitous non-filtered shot from the other night that I quite like.
Edited by Pot Bellied Fool on Monday 13th August 10:49
As polarisation filters will be useful to give nice dark blue skies I'd buy it for the wide angle. On the tele it may come in handy as well, but I at least find it most useful in landscape and nature shots.
On second thought, buy it for the biggest lens and get an adaptor to fit it on the other as well! Will cost a few quid extra but will give you the universal solution.Maarten
Pot Bellied Fool said:
Morning all...
'Twas my birthday on Friday,over here at PBF towers and my Mother, following a few dropped hints, popped into a local photography shop & got some bits suitable for a beginner-ish type person.
So...
I now have a Hoya Skylight filter that fits my Olympus E300's stock lens quite nicely and as per Hoya's suggestion, will be left on to protect the lens.
But, she also bought me a polarising filter - but the thread size is wrong. I think she garbled what she was saying a bit & the guys in the shop probably looked up the wrong lens to get the thread size.
So I need to go change it. But as they have different thread sizes, which lens does the board think it would be better fitted to?
The 14-45m or the 55-200mm?
...and here's a gratuitous non-filtered shot from the other night that I quite like.
Ah, Another Place. I've only managed to get there during full daylight, and it's difficult to get an interesting shot at that time. That one is really nice - now I just need an excuse to be hanging around Crosby near sunset...'Twas my birthday on Friday,over here at PBF towers and my Mother, following a few dropped hints, popped into a local photography shop & got some bits suitable for a beginner-ish type person.
So...
I now have a Hoya Skylight filter that fits my Olympus E300's stock lens quite nicely and as per Hoya's suggestion, will be left on to protect the lens.
But, she also bought me a polarising filter - but the thread size is wrong. I think she garbled what she was saying a bit & the guys in the shop probably looked up the wrong lens to get the thread size.
So I need to go change it. But as they have different thread sizes, which lens does the board think it would be better fitted to?
The 14-45m or the 55-200mm?
...and here's a gratuitous non-filtered shot from the other night that I quite like.
Edited by Pot Bellied Fool on Monday 13th August 10:49
As mmertens says go for the larger size and a stepping ring.
You'll be doing yourself a favour if you check at the widest for two things. Vigne... Vinge... Doh - light fall off at the corners. And how a blue sky will darken unevenly in a very wide angle shot.
You'll be doing yourself a favour if you check at the widest for two things. Vigne... Vinge... Doh - light fall off at the corners. And how a blue sky will darken unevenly in a very wide angle shot.
Edited by beano500 on Monday 13th August 12:32
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