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Using more than one filter
I was wondering if you have a lens with say a UV filter on your lens and want to fit a circular polarizing filter on do you take the UV filter off first or place the polarizing filter to the UV filter ?
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3 Answers to “Using more than one filter”
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Hi.
You can do what you want with the filters, heck – you could stack 10 on the end. But, the more you put on the lens, the worse the quality becomes.
UV filters block UV rays (obviously) but also, they block a tiny bit of light.. they normally say they let in 90-99.9% of light, depending on the quality. Whilst this doesn\’t necessarily matter with CPL filters, as you are letting a lot less light in on purpose, it does make changes to the image if you have 3+ filters on at once.
I would personally try to only stick to one, and get good filters (not $10 ones from ebay or something) as they will keep as much quality as possible. Although they will be about 10x more expensive in some cases, it\’s so worth it to get good, high quality UV filters, CPL, Neutral Density (ND) and others because if you buy a rubbish one, you may be able to tell later on, then buy a better one anyway.
To get back to the point, it wouldn\’t harm your camera, but it may harm you images.
I would keep the filter count to 1 (2 if absolute necessary) as this will help maximize the quality. It really does matter though when buying filters, because you have an expensive load of glass in front of your camera, and then you\’ll be shoving a rubbish peice of glass, which will ruin the quality of your expensive lens.
Also, I don\’t keep UV filters on the end of my lenses. Although it helps to \”protect the front element\” which it does, I am careful with my lenses, always have either the hood or the cap on (or both), which will prevent anything scratching the surface and ruining my expensive lens. I also don\’t point up towards the sky a lot, or go in very dusty places, so i\’m alright with having the front element exposed.
Of course, though.. I do have a high quality UV filter for each of my lenses if ever I know i\’m taking one to a very dusty place or something, so that helps.
I hope this helped, sorry I rambled on a bit. I\’m just trying to help you with everything about filters really and to be careful when buying them. If you know you are a bit clumsy though, and have scratched things in the past easily or scratched a UV filter before, I would keep them on just for protection, but if you\’re careful and take pride in your camera, keep them off to gain maximum quality.
Good luck.
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Thank you that really helps, I have already bought my polarizing filter and I only remember it was not inexpensive. It is made by Optex
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I agree with Sam.
Unless you are using film or a very old digital camera, you dont need an UV Filter. There allready is on on your sensor.
And for lens protection a lens hood will do a far better job.
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And thank you for confirming Sams' info I really appreciate the help
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Marty; I dont advise stacking and thats what your doing with two filters #1 a uv filter is basically a lens protector #2 a polorizer is a specific filter for clouds water reflections hot spot sun shadows ect Also it you do stack filters you’ll probably loose 1 to 2 stops on your exposures I’d just use the apporiate filter 1 at a time
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