Perhaps better said, I have never been able to see enough more to justify the use of the filter. So far, I have seen without a filter anything someone claims to be seeing with a filter. Add to that the increased fine detail in the image, and you have the reason I do not use filters. Brent --- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
Color filters NEVER improve the overall view- if you expect this, you will always be disappointed.
What they do is improve CONTRAST between details of similar value and tone.
They improve visibility of certain details only, often to the detriment of most of the other detail. In other words, filters enhance specific features of specific color- everything else in view will actually suffer. You sometimes have to "build-up" the detail data using several filters independantly...they are not like the color-controls on your TV set...the idea isn't to get a better overall picture.
I think the anti-filter people are seeing the overall degredation and leaving it at that...is it an aesthetic issue, people?
Personally, I've teased-out details, using filters, that were utterly invisible without the filter, too many times for it to be imagined.
And yes, there may be times when you can't tease-out the finer detail, but that may mean that you just don't have the right filter, or the seeing itself may be rendering the detail invisible.
Chuck
Interesting topic. I have an old color filter card
--- Kim Hyatt <khyatt@smithlayton.com> wrote: -
I don't remember who used to make them. There are about eight different colors of "gels" and the optical quality seems OK. I believe that the gross detail has been easier for me to spot on occasion, but my experience with the fine detail has been like Brent's - the filters seem to degrade things. However, I would like to experiment more.
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