Polarising filters
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It can be used indoors or outdoors. If you know what a polarising filter does, just apply it whenever you need it, e.g. cutting reflections from a glass surface.
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if you wish to increase contrast/saturation of colours in the picture indoors, the answer is no
if you wish to use it to cut down reflection/glare from non-metallic reflective surfaces then possibly, given that you have the means to shoot properly when you require longer exposure time
Colour correction filters is not needed for digital. It was meant for film to correct for different lighting temperation.
In digital cameras, we simply adjust the white balance.
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Visit the Hoya website, it explains the various filters they have and what they are targetted at achieving.
ts, you need to read up more about digital photography
often i find that a lot of questions that i have, the answers are easily answered, if i put in enough effort
of course if you cannot answer those questions yourself you are more than welcome to post them up, but otherwise, just firing shotgun questions for small small things can be exasperating for the people who are willing to help and expect a higher level of questioning rather than such fundamentals..
cheers, anyhow, i hope you are not offended by my point of view
often i find that a lot of questions that i have, the answers are easily answered, if i put in enough effort
of course if you cannot answer those questions yourself you are more than welcome to post them up, but otherwise, just firing shotgun questions for small small things can be exasperating for the people who are willing to help and expect a higher level of questioning rather than such fundamentals..
cheers, anyhow, i hope you are not offended by my point of view
It still may be needed. "White balance" only allows an approximate correction (an accurate correction is mathematically impossible at this stage), and "colour temperature" is an extremely crude way to describe the spectral composition of light.
Household fluorescent lamps are mercury lamps that emit mostly a few discrete wavelengths. The phosphor coating of the tube converts this somewhat to an acceptable colour, but the spectral lines of mercury are still very pronounced (notably a green line at 546 nm); you can see the discrete wavelengths if you look e.g. at the diffraction patterns of a CD in fluorescent light. In many cases, this results in colour reproduction that is extremely different from sunlight (common e.g. with wood tones), and the only way to substantially correct this is to attenuate the offending wavelengths before they reach the film/sensor. This is exactly what the fluorescent light filter does/is supposed to do.
I did saw people using polarising filter for indoor shooting. Cos at the back of my mind, I thought that polarising filters are for outdoor...so I'm curious to find the facts.
I did look up for the question I wanted to know...but failed to find it. Thats the reason why I started this thread. I'm OK with all C&C.
I'll ask more "intelligent" questions next time. Anyway, its ok. Cheers! The WB adjustment is much more precise compared the the colour correction filter.
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With one exception, it is fundamentally possible (though tedious) to correct exactly using a filter. Using white balance, it is fundamentally impossible (but very convenient). For small corrections white balance is much more practical, but for serious situations like fluorescent lamps, you cannot get the colours to look the same as under sunlight. This is just another manifestation of metamerism.
OT slightly:
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm
Just a handy and free little program that helps remove colour casts from your photos, it includes Warming, Cooling and Colour Correction filters.
Its only 380kb in size and is very useful used in conjunction with photo editing, yes you can do it in many editing software programs but this is something specialized.
What you actually get is a set of Kodak Wratten filters that have been in use for years in film photography. What this does is to simulate what the different colour filters do change a picture.
Enjoy!
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm
Just a handy and free little program that helps remove colour casts from your photos, it includes Warming, Cooling and Colour Correction filters.
Its only 380kb in size and is very useful used in conjunction with photo editing, yes you can do it in many editing software programs but this is something specialized.
What you actually get is a set of Kodak Wratten filters that have been in use for years in film photography. What this does is to simulate what the different colour filters do change a picture.
Enjoy!
filters correct by an invariable set amount, whereas by shooting RAW and adjusting white balance, it is possible to fine tune the colour to a very exact amount...
I have personally never found an image shot in RAW with colour that cannot be adjusted in white balance that might have been corrected by filter... but all this is OT so sorry to TS and lets get back to polarising filter... :embrass:
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