Flip comparing; the no filter side looks sharper to me. And the filtered side has a bunch of destroyed detail too.
<shrug>
By flipping through the two images, I can see that the image without the Nikon L37c filter has a tiny bit more micro-contrast and sharpness than the image with the filter.
I did the same thing with the image with the B+W filter and the image without, and the difference is not as noticeable if at all. I guess this does show that a more expensive filter does make a difference, albeit a very small one.
Yeah, agreed. And in all truth this is about the same difference I usually see in el\'cheap-o filters too. It\'s just the 1 in 100 shot that gets wrecked because of the filter (cheap or expensive no matter) that keeps me away from them. And sometimes every shot in the shoot is wrecked - I\'ve had that happen too without knowing it. In my case I guess I\'m lucky; except for a few family member shots and shots of friends, I shoot inconsequential subjects that wouldn\'t bother me much if lost. Besides those mentioned I could lose my entire 2 year library (boom) and I wouldn\'t even care all that much. It\'s interesting here in Japan too... I dunno if these types exist outside Japan but there is a class of photographer here (perhaps making up about 25% ?) that shoots to the card but never offloads the images to anything. When they\'re tired of looking at the captures or maybe showing them to a few friends, they just delete them - gone forever. They just enjoy the moment of capture and using the equipment and that\'s about it. I recently met a family where 3 members were into photography in such a way. But they did \"transfer\" the images to a Sony P&S so that they could play them back for others without having to allow others to touch their expensive gear.. That all had 5DmII cameras with expensive L lenses. They might even have had multiple memory cards I dunno - didn\'t ask. But with never being displayed larger than 3\" even the worst filter \"wreck\" will likely never be noticed.
Kinda weird IMO but I think it demonstrates how totally unimportant fine detail and ultimate IQ are past the point of capture, to a whole lotta folks - at least here in Japan.
Mar 13, 2012 at 09:16 AM
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