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Looking for a little advice on filters, I've got a few screw on filters just now, mainly UV filters and a polarizer I got with one of my lenses but now that I have my 10-20 and hopefully a 17-70 soon I'd like to take a further look at filters to see if they would help me take better photos.

I know that skylight filters and polarizers are best reccomended for landscape photography but I was also wondering about the filter kits that you attach to the lens rather than the screw ins, how do these work?

Cheers,

Chris
 
:Most of the larger lenses need the type of filter that a filter holder screws on to the lens then you slide in the various filters.
Have a look at Lee filters Cokin filters they do a huge range of Nd filters graduated filters etc.
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It's good fun to play with a few filters, but then most folks settle on just a few.

For me, that's a Circular Polariser, a 2 stops ND soft cut grad, and a 6 stops Neutral Density.

All the others can go - star burst, brown grad, multi-prism, green grad, diffraction grating, purple grad, star burst prism multi spot soft focus grad (multi coated) :D
 
I'd say square are generay more versatile - grads on a threaded filter are fixed and can ony rotate.

However for long ND fiters (ND6 or ND10) threaded are better for less light loss
 
chrism_scotland said:
Whats the general consensus on whats better, threaded filters or square filters?
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I used to use a square system, as they are good for experimenting, and you can also vary the height of grad filters in the holder, and using multiple filters is easier.

But now that I've got it down to just a few filters that I actually use regularly, I use screw in. They're less cumbersome, and you can do quite a lot to effectively vary the height of a grad fade with the lens aperture (higher f/number pulls the fade line down darker and harder).

Rick makes a good point about using screw in ND filters.

But if I was seriously into filters, I would get a quality square system like Lee.
 
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