Excuse my naiveté, but do I need to remove this filter when shooting after nightfall or shooting indoors? And if so, what filter do I replace it with?
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Interesting that you asked this question as I am pondering this myself though with the haze filter. Different schools of thought from using as "protection of camera lens" to cutting glare to those who don't use them at all. This filter is on at all times during the day unless shooting in very low light. My haze filter not so sure about.
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The circular polarizer is used to remove glare and darken sky's. You also loose a couple of stops of light, so at night and indoors you will not need it, although it might be effective indoors to reduce glare on non metallic surfaces. If you want to replace it you can use a skylight filter or a UV filter.
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Yes, it is better to take it out for the use you refer to, as it cuts light.Just have the normal UV - lens protecting filter on.
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It would not be a requirement, but removal would be preferred by most photographers. If you already have a basic UV filter on your camera, screw this one onto it. At nightfall, remove this one leaving the UV filter on your camera. Otherwise, open this one (the polarized filter) all the way to let in the maximum amount of light.
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It is best to not use a clear filter. A UV/clear filter can indeed affect image quality, particularly when the sun is in the frame. This can result in some rather un-attractive flare and blobs. As long as you keep the hood on when shooting, the front element should be protected, unless you are unreasonably hard with your gear.
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The answer is a resounding "maybe." This is a very dark filter. Assuming your intent is to shoot in bright light and use the filter to be able to play with depth-of-field, you should be able to see through it well enough to frame up your shot. If, for some reason, you're thinking about using it in moderate to dim lighting conditions, it could make things pretty difficult, but I'm not sure what you'd be hoping to get out of it under those circumstances, anyway.
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You need to replace the filter and UV lamp once a year, by ordering from Surround Air. The unit seems to keep dust from building up on the surrounding furniture. You may have to replace the filter more regularly if you have several pets and burn wood in a fireplace.
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I am no expert on night vision tech. That said when you activate the infared feature you get a really bright image. It seem to be a little fuzzy. but that could be me. Zero in at what ever rough distance you will be using it and blast away. What ever you get beats shooting in the dark.
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Probably a reasonable thing to do use a UV filter for haze. With the G10 (like most point and shoots without a lens thread) you will require an extension tube to fit onto the bayonet fitting surrounding the lens. I intend to include a PL filter which will greatly enhance sky and water. In order to replace the camera in its case this fitting will have to be removed each time.I didn't write this - someone else did under my name. Perhaps the whole discussion business is a sham to sell more gear!
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this shouldn't interfere with any portion of focusing either in or out of focus regions. If you put this to its fullest setting you will be left with a very close to black out filter. What you will notice its that you will probably have areas off uneven filtering the darker you set the filter.
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Alex, I actually shoot with it a lot outdoors as it cuts any glare and deepens contrast. Great filter!
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HG-I am currently using without a filter for general, all situtation photos... however, depending our your style or use, that may be something you'd want. Some folks like to have just for protection, but I find the lens-hood does a good job with that... I haven't seen anything like "flaring" to warrant my need for a filter. Hope this helps. T~*
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You need an infrared source of light. From what I have read most flashes also generate some IR light but it is not designed. I've read you can also buy IR bulbs from various sources. You just need to make sure that whatever light source you have generates it above 720nm for this filter. You will need a pretty bright light for this to work at night. Even in broad daylight I still had to hold the shutter open for 20 seconds to get enough IR to hit the sensor. Ideally it would be cool to get an IR flash if there is such a thing.
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I shot with the plastic ring in and out and must say if you not too worried by the look, having that plastic piece out is so much better. If you still getting this funny cloudy shot try turning on your light before you shoot. I have noticed a significant improvement with the subject already light up than the burst of flash. remember these devices are not designed to shoot so well in low light. Hope this helped.
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I have the "Regular" B&W UV filter on my Canon 10-22 with no vignetting. I took 2 shots for you off my deck. The first one has no filter; the second one has the regular B&H UV fiter. OOPS! There is no way to attach files to this reply. Give me a few minutes and then go to my web site for the pix: http://michaelsimonds.com Look for "Test Shots." Good imaging to you!
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I've got a Red 6 I bought 6 weeks ago. Haven't really used it on game yet but did a fair amount of experimentation on day and night shooting and distances, motion, etc. A few of my night shots were very washed out. My yellow lab was maybe 8 feet away when he triggered the camera. Seems like subjects closer than 20 feet end up over exposed. Another test was of me in the yard at night 20 feet away and I showed up clear as well as my neighbor's house wall that was over 60 feet from the camera. While reading your note I thought of something you might try in case your camera is over exposing your night shots with too much infrared for the closer shots. Try using some black electrical tape cut in small pieces and placed in front of a few of the IR leds to block out a portion of the light they emit. Also try not to have a lot of dry light colored grass in the photos to cut down on the amount of IR reflection back to the camera. Good luck. One last thought, it could be that the software that must distinguish between Color Daylight exposure recording and switching the unit to exposing for IR black and white may be having a problem during that transition period when its switching prematurely (too early) to IR and the combination of IR and still existing twilight is overexposing the shot. I suspect that might be your case.
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you can put a filter on the hood..there is a thread mount on it. there is i little bit shadow appear in the image when you set the lens in 55mm. adjust the lens a little bit and the shadow will disappear..
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I didn't remove it, i have question that myself though. In the video on kumbacam site the leave it on. I've been using it with no problems.
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IR and nightvison are two different things for most people. Which are you asking for? This is an IR (infrared)filter that blocks most of the visible light in order to use IR to make the exposure. So using this filter at night would be tough since in the dark you will lose all autofocusing. You would need an IR source to use it at all and it would need to be fairly strong and/or pretty close to the subject. Depending on the camera, you may or may not get decent false coloring. But no matter what you will need to process the image after shooting it to be either B/W or false color. It will be seriously red. You will give up some clarity so dont be surprised. I have a sample of this lens on a D700 on my G+ page. https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/101688838116518955904/albums/5803489596685783889
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Robbie, did you get the filter? Will your lens cap and hood fit over it? I would like to leave it on all the time.