Redundant filters

[derekG]

Came across some colored and warm up filters left over from my film days whilst having a clean up, Hoya b1 etc, are these redundant now we have editing suites or would you still use them ?

 

[DazJW]

Personally I'd say anything other than ND (solid and grad) or CPL are redundant as you can do warming/cooling with the white balance setting on the camera and anything else on a computer with free software. Maybe a UV or clear filter if you're somewhere that your gear is going to get really dirty or if you want it to complete the weather sealing on a lens.

Other than that it's just carrying stuff you don't need to as at best they'd save you a few seconds of processing.

 

[weybourne]

Talking off the top of my head and theoretically (and also thinking that I read something similar on these boards before), if you had conditions that had a very coloured light that you wanted to 'balance out', or if you wanted to introduce a colour-cast, wouldn't you be better filtering it at capture rather than pushing one of the colour channels to extremes either in camera or on computer?

I can't think of any real-life situation where this might be the case, but I'm throwing it up for theoretical discussion in the hope that someone with more knowledge/experience can enlighten me.

 

[steveo_mcg]

There was a thread in basics about taking a picture in the city under street lights, a colour filter was used to cut out the cast as it was too far to recover in post. Ended up using an extra stop but the colours were mostly natural.

 

[Nguss]

I still use film and would still use them. Possibly not as useful if you are solely using digital however.