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Re: [OM] UV and Skylight Filters

Subject: Re: [OM] UV and Skylight Filters
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 11:50:30 +1000
Probably worth doing if you're in an area experiencing high UV.  Most
sensors will render the UV that gets through your lens as blue which will
make the scene a bit difficult to colour balance properly.  How do you
separate the real blues from the UV false blues ?

...Wayne


> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus <olympus-
> bounces+wayne.harridge=structuregraphs.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
> Behalf Of Chris Trask
> Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2019 7:40 AM
> To: Olympus Discussion Group <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] UV and Skylight Filters
> 
>      I generally use a UV filter to protect the objective end of my
lenses, but
> I'm wondering if the camera sensor is affected in any way.  I doubt it,
but
> thought I would ask as I'm contemplating using Skylight 1A/B filters
instead to
> correct the ambient colour temperature ahead of the processing.
> 
>      I came to the conclusion some time ago that the use of Wratten
filters on
> these digital cameras is a lot of wasted effort, unless I want to take
photos in
> RAW to shut off the precessing.  I just take the best possible colour
photo
> and do the Wratten filters and B&W conversion later.  But, using a
Skylight
> 1A/B will at least correct the daylight colour temperature.
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
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