Which Lense

[mollydog]

Originally Posted by impasto

Mollydog - I've NEVER disagreed with anything you say (rare for me, honestly) - except now!

Leave the filters at home! Apart from a UV filter, which should stay on your lense permanently, as a protector, more than anything - LEAVE THE FILTERS AT HOME.

Some reasons:

1. Don't need them (ok - maybe polarizing - but how many times do you need that?). Use photoshop.

2. Each time, you remove a filter, and screw on another one - you're giving dust and crap a chance to get onto the lense. You ARE going to be changing filters in the field... so you're exposed to the elements.

3. More things to pack = more things to break, etc, etc, etc.


I challenge any photographer (I knoooow this is revolutionary talk for the purist among you), to bring a filtered photograph, that I can not reproduce EXACTLY in Photoshop.

I'm sure your right. Coming out of a film background I'm old school and suck at Photo shop. I'm a movie sound guy and learned alot from the DP's I worked with over the years, but now its all photo Shop. I really should spend more time learning it. I took a four day seminar a year ago .... I still never use it. Every month they want you to buy an updated version. I actually spend more time shooting than on the computer.

I'd prefer to learn how to shoot and how to see light and shadow than learning tricks on the computer...even though I should.

I've spent 30 years learning about light, focal lengths, angles and what lenses do.
On a set, sound is always right next to camera. Some of those broken down camera guys were pretty smart. Not much rubbed off but I can dream....

Patrick