Your favorite filter?

[cosmonaut]

Whats your favorite filter, red, green, blue, orange, polarizer, something else and why?

 

[Brian Puccio]

Polarizer, love those blue skies.

 

[Robert Lai]

Multicoated UV for lens protection on all lenses.

Occasionally a polarizer if the light is right, and the lens is not too wide.

A yellow or orange for B&W film.

 

[nikon_sam]

I love what the Polarizer will do, even with B&W...I need to use it more often...
I use a Deep Yellow on most cameras dedicated to B&W...
I have a #85 Warming filter on one lens and it also works with B&W film...it's a 67mm filter that I found in the bargain bin...it was brand new in the box...
I bought into the Cokin system years ago but don't use half of what I got...

 

[oftheherd]

If using it more means favorite then I guess it would be UV. But that is more protection than filter use for how a filter affects film. I don't use any filters like I used to, but even then it depended on an effect I wanted. No real favorite.

 

[ferider]

Used to be ND8. Now its yellow/K2.

 

[FPjohn]

Hello:

Yellow/Orange as they discriminate between yellow and green and give rather nice sky.

yours
FPJ

 

[ChrisPlatt]

You will usually find a yellow-green filter on my rangefinder and a polarizer on my SLR.

Chris

 

[Chris101]

Red, red and red.

 

[B-9]

My fav. and most used filter is an Orange (Cokin P)
Ive never really used UV filter's, I did have a Heliopan UWA (thinner) UV0 filter for my Canon 20/2.8, but only becuase the front element was so huge and seriously needed the protection, you could loose touch of how close your subject was, it focused so close.

I dont believ there is much dif. between Yellow and Orange or even Red.
From my experience the images turn out very similiar, I like using Orange becuase its the median.

Pola of course is in most photogs bag, great for snowscapes on the F3.

 

[C_R]

A custom made screw-on 2-stop grad ND filter for my CV15/4.5

from a Singh-Ray Galen Rowell Filter plate 84x 120 mm.
Cut out by an optician and put into a cheap Tama U-Slim Digital UV Filter ring.

Generally I dont like screw-on grad NDs but this one has a super soft transition that compensates dynamic range nicely without artifacts.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38068178@N08/4389568695/

 

[P3tr]

B+W 110

 

[charjohncarter]

I wish somebody made a vignetting filter. I can't find one so I'm to give it a go with an old UV. My first attempt didn't work to well:

 

[Paul Luscher]

Color: Polarizer.

B&W: Either orange or red filter.

 

[gekopaca]

I never use filters. Never.
I always shoot in Raw, then I can use post-treatment as I want.
BUT with I'm always carrying with me neutral filters in case of danger to the lens (projected, riots and all the like).

 

[bigeye]

Use: 3 stop ND, 81A, K2 or Orange.

Fav: none...

Most: K2

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[cosmonaut]

I got a red one but I need a step down ring for it to fit my 28mm. I thought I would get another one. I am thinking yellow. I also want to have the option of slowing the lens some in bright light.

 

[Chris101]

Cosmo, red filters generally shave 3 stops off the light, while yellow ones ... about half a stop.

 

[Doug]

Yellow-Green for B&W film, otherwise UV or UV/IR Cut. 🙂

 

[Dave S.]

Use: K2, UV, Polarizer, Orange (orange only on my Polaroid 250)

Favorite & Most: K2

Want to try: Yellow/Green, Yellow/Orange, ND, Red

I just picked up a neat "Actina" hood+filter set for my Retina IIa that came with Blue, Orange, Yellow, and Green filters. I haven't tried them yet though...