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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Can I use another filter on top of my skylight or uv filter when photographing?Question: Can I use another filter on top of my skylight or uv filter when photographing!? I always have a uv filter fitted on my standard soom lens!. Can I use other filters(eg neutral density, polarising) screwed on top of it!?
also, what is the main difference between a neutral density filter and a polarising filter, and if I had to buy one over the other, which should I choose!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Stacking filters is usually not a problem unless you are using a very wide angle lens - then you may experience "vignetting" which is a darkening at the corners of the frame!. However, stacking filters has the potential to cause glare and/or reflections since the elements are separated!. IMO you'd be wise to avoid stacking filters unless absolutely necessary!. A circular polarizer is used to darken a blue sky and to remove glare/reflections from water, sand, glass, snow and painted metal - but not polished metal!. One should be in every photographer's camera bag!. A Neutral Density (ND) filter is used to reduce the amount of light admitted by the lens without affecting color!. Its original use was with film cameras when the ISO of the film was too fast to achieve certain effects!. A film photographer who loaded ISO 400 film might want to shoot a waterfall and blur the water but find that even at f16 or f22 the shutter speed was still too high!. He'd then use an ND filter to reduce the amount of light and lower the shutter speed to get the results he wanted!. Although the digital photograher can easily change his ISO setting, in some situations he may find that even the lowest ISO and smallest f-stop will not give the results wanted!. Then an ND filter is needed - just like the film photograher previously mentioned!. A circular polarizer can act as an ND filter since it usually reduces the light by 1 to 2 stops!. Always buy quality filters - Heliopan, B+W, Singh-Ray, Tiffen, Hoya are all good brands!. Every lens you own should have a Skylight or Haze/UV filter mounted to protect the front element of the lens!. You can find out everything you'd want to know about ND filters on wikipedia!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes you can but watch for the edge of the second filter encroaching on the visible image in the corners, causing partial vignetting!. A polarizing filter will help to darken sky and intensify colour in good lighting conditions and remove some unwanted reflections!. A neutral density filter (different strengths available) will reduce the amount of light entering the camera without changing the relative light/dark within the image!. The polarizing filter is far more useful and, besides the basic UV filter, one of the esentials!. There are 2 types of polarizing filter,linear and circular - that's the orientation of the polarisation, not the shape of the filter!. For digital photography, you will want a circular polarizer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Depending on the type of lens you use, yes!. When using a wide angle, chances are that you will get vignetting (the dark corners, actually 'seeing' your filters edges)!. On a telelens, this will not occur that soon, since the angle is smaller!. also note that image quality will degrade when you use filters, so more filters, less quality!. http://blog!.fotografieluna!.beWww@QuestionHome@Com I don't stack filters but thats me for reasons stated above about wide angle!. I take one off and put the other one on!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |