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Lou - 24 Jun 2005 02:42 GMT

A simple and probably stupid question. Can I use the same type of
filters which I used with both black & white film and colour with a
digital camera? (Canon EOS 350D).

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Angus.

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carrigman - 24 Jun 2005 07:03 GMT

Yes.

Carrigman

> A simple and probably stupid question. Can I use the same type of
> filters which I used with both black & white film and colour with a
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> Angus.

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Roger Whitehead - 24 Jun 2005 07:16 GMT

> Can I use the same type of
> filters which I used with both black & white film and colour with a
> digital camera? (Canon EOS 350D).

You can but, stating the obvious, if you use coloured filters, they will
affect the colour balance of your shots in colour. Polarizing, UV and ND
filters are OK for colour as well as B&W.

You can have fun experimenting, and with different combinations. The
'film' is cheap enough, after all.

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Geoff Berrow - 24 Jun 2005 07:35 GMT

I noticed that Message-ID: <VA.000003dc.003d139e@ntlworld.com> from
Roger Whitehead contained the following:

>> Can I use the same type of
>> filters which I used with both black & white film and colour with a
>> digital camera? (Canon EOS 350D).
>
>You can but, stating the obvious, if you use coloured filters, they will
>affect the colour balance of your shots in colour.

causing cameras with automatic white balance to try to compensate.

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Roger Whitehead - 24 Jun 2005 09:11 GMT

> causing cameras with automatic white balance to try to compensate.

Hmm. It'll be interesting to see what happens. I wonder if one ends up
with a herniated sensor.

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Angus - 24 Jun 2005 13:17 GMT

>You can have fun experimenting, and with different combinations. The
>'film' is cheap enough, after all.

Thankyou all for your contribution.
Regards,

Morph.

(Whoever I am today, I may not be tomorrow.)

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Roger Whitehead - 25 Jun 2005 06:25 GMT

AAMOI, there's a free program for simulating the effect of coloured lenses
on digital images. You can download from here -
http://www.opanda.com/en/pf/index.html

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Roger Whitehead - 25 Jun 2005 11:03 GMT

> coloured lenses

Sorry. That should of course be coloured filters.

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harrogate2 - 25 Jun 2005 11:23 GMT

> AAMOI, there's a free program for simulating the effect of coloured lenses
> on digital images. You can download from here -
> http://www.opanda.com/en/pf/index.html
> --
>
> Roger

Funnily enough you cannot get directly to the page from the link
above, or by tying it in, but go to the home page, click English at
the top, then go to the bottom and click on PhotoFilter and you end up
at the same place.

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Roger Whitehead - 25 Jun 2005 11:52 GMT

> Funnily enough you cannot get directly to the page from the link
> above,

You might not be able to but going direct works fine for me, in IE,
Firefox, Mozilla, Avant Browser and Opera. Sure your set-up's working
properly?

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