Basic filters for a Panasonic HVX200
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Ryan Patrick O'Hara
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The real question is why are you so protective of your lens? What are you worried about?
Most cinematographers don't use anything in-front of the lens that isn't for a deliberate look, unless there is certain or high risk of danger. I'll use a clear filter if we are doing a shot where debris could be kicked up into the lens, water or liquid could be sprayed, or etc. If the situation is a normal shooting environment, I don't use anything that isn't meant to influence the look of the shoot unless safety of the lens is a concern, which 99% of the time, it is not.
Most cinematographers don't use anything in-front of the lens that isn't for a deliberate look, unless there is certain or high risk of danger. I'll use a clear filter if we are doing a shot where debris could be kicked up into the lens, water or liquid could be sprayed, or etc. If the situation is a normal shooting environment, I don't use anything that isn't meant to influence the look of the shoot unless safety of the lens is a concern, which 99% of the time, it is not.
j1clark@ucsd.edu
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I get yelled at by the Wife for not putting on a UV filter to protect the lens... If you look at 'movie cameras', you will notice a lack of filters, and almost always some sort of lens hood. This is to avoid picking up stray light and throwing it into your image.
More surfaces, means more potential for picking up something. When I shot 4x5 I almost never used a filter, unless it was a gelatin filter, or specific purpose glass filter, and often would use a lens hood... With 35mm and 'bouncing around' as well as the intimidation factor of a big bulky rig, I've not been inclined to put on a large lens hood, but don't use filters, because these days, I don't usually go running around with three cameras on me, crashing around trying to get shots. When the Wife's wedding business was active, I would put filters on, because it was pretty much a crap shoot of getting through a wedding and not having someone knock into you, you into something, or the like...
The only lens we've had 'totalled'... was when the wife was giving a demo at a seminar... put the camera on a table near by... and someone knocked the table and the camera fell lens first to the hard floor. The lens ended up looking like a bent soda can... no 'UV' filter would have protected that... total rubber room perhaps...
I have a "good" UV filter and a "less good" UV filter. Can't recall the makers offhand...
Anyway - For mud racing and the like where there's a good chance of getting a gob of something tossed at the glass, I used the "less good" filter.
For basic uncontrolled outdoors stuff, I use the "good" filter.
Studio or basic indoors location - bareback is fine.
Anyway - For mud racing and the like where there's a good chance of getting a gob of something tossed at the glass, I used the "less good" filter.
For basic uncontrolled outdoors stuff, I use the "good" filter.
Studio or basic indoors location - bareback is fine.