Which filter is best?
Discussion
beano500 said:
Probably in the oreder you've listed 'em. Except that manufacturers like Hoya will have several ranges, the cheap and cheerful, the premium and the super-duper-many-multi-coated-with-knobs-on....
Thanks Beano - given what I paid for all four, I don't think the Hoya one is super-duper.
After I posted this thread I thought I'd do the "feel test" to see which one feels the best quality. It's the B+W by a significant margin, and the order is indeed as I posted!
At least I've got the others as backups incase I scratch one - I've also got a Hoya skylight as well.
UV and skylight are similar. IIRC skylight will have a slightly pinker tinge. In the good ole days you'd get the camp that would swear by having a skylight that would remove a little more blue haze in landscape work. That is a little bit of the visible spectrum as well as the UV which you can't see.
I suppose in these days of digi trickery the skylight's a bit of a redundant little beastie....
I suppose in these days of digi trickery the skylight's a bit of a redundant little beastie....
Have a look here: http://dpfwiw.com/filters.htm
Skylight and Haze will cut out some blue, UV doesn't...
Skylight and Haze will cut out some blue, UV doesn't...
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