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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Filters, the real, physical ones attached in FRONT of your cameras lens can do a # of things!. 1, they will protect the front element of the lens they are on from dirt, dust, fingerprints and the splattering and spray of life as you walk around with your camera!. They can also enhance your photo a # of ways by the way their designed!. The 'filters' inside your camera are processed in at the time the image is taken and stored on your memory card!. These are not true filters but special effects produced electronically (digitally) to give you a little something extra to play with as you use your camera!. More on the 'digital' filters in a moment!. UV - or the clear glass looking filters are the most popular!. These are akin to a clear lens cover and a very good option to have on each and every lens you own, and keep them there!. They are actually very, very light yellow or straw color to help reduce blue in your images from the sky and air!. Polarizers - like the sunglasses, they cut random, stray light which is everywhere from every direction!. Your images will have more contrast, color depth and 'vivid-ness' than with out!. However, polarizers are another thing to "learn" and use correctly to achieve these effects!. One of the easiest ways is to turn the filter as you look thru the camera and notice the effect on what you see and take the picture when you like what you see!. The blue sky usually goes a bit darker!. Clouds look whiter!. Colors become "richer" when the filter is twisted one way or another!. In some angles, in relation to the sun, this effect may be very pronounced or hardly seen at all!. As in many aspects of photography, you have to experiment!.!. Color tinted filters - This is become more of a moot point in digital cameras because of Auto White Light balancing!. There is no longer a need to "convert" out-side film to indoor light (or the other way around), nor when shooting under florescent lights!. If you put a red, blue or yellow on your digital camera you WILL get a red, blue or yellow image, however, the exposure is usually 'off' and the image is not as vivid as the color filter you used because the camera's computer tried to convert the incoming light to "white" (as it normally does during normal exposures) and things became washed out!.!. Electronic or digital filters, also known as plug-ins, are part of most every semi-high end image processing program and few people these days know much about them!. Here you have a wide range of special and cool effects at your finger tips!. Many mimic the glass filters of 35mm shooters!. You can have split colors, top/bottom or from side to side!. You can have every color under the rainbow to convert your image with!. There is fog, haze, rain, smoke, motion, blur and endless combinations at your beck and call!. Some effects are so far out they defy description!.!. One source, KPT - Kai's Power Tools has a robust number of special effects you can apply after the image is in your computer!. Another set of filters I like and use!.!. is from Nik's Software!. Here they offer, in a electronic form, all the filters (and then some) a photographer would ever want to have with them in their bag!. Dozens mimic the real glass filter one would screw on the front of your lens but your given so much more control over many aspects than with the real one!. Bottom line here is - the more you place over the front of your lens the better it is you have a chance of degrading your image!. Light is fickle, and the more 'things' it has to pass thru, the less it likes it and becomes softer, blurry, less contrasty and on and on!.!.Use real filters sparingly and it's human nature to save money and while price alone is NOT a guide line, manufactures are!.!.! A German company named BW is a EXCELLENT source of high quality glass screw on filters!. $50 bucks is NOT uncommon for one of their filters, depending on size and if you have 4 to 600 bucks in your camera, another 50 to keep your images as pristine as they can be, and to protect your front lens element, is not a bad deal!.!. Bob - TucsonWww@QuestionHome@Com Filters do two things !.!.!. protect the front element of your lens(es) and in some cases like the polaroid lens enhance the contrast between the sky and cloulds as well as reflections off ponds and windows What is seems you are calling filters are in-camera modifications!. Not the best way to modify images!. The most control is effected by using a photo program after you have shot your absolutely best images you can in your cameraWww@QuestionHome@Com sepia is awsome it looks so cool! hihWww@QuestionHome@Com |