“Like sunglasses for your camera”
Julie and I invested in a Canon Rebel XT recently. I love it. Every little thing it does is magic. One of my first purchases regarding the camera was (of course) clear filters to protect the lenses. I was going to go with just the straight-up clear filters, but the guy at Ritz Photo was convincing enough to sell me on UV filters, “like sunglasses for your camera,” was his pitch.
I figured what the heck, right? It’s only a few dollars more and maybe I’ll get some use out of them some really sunny day. I put them on the lenses and didn’t think about them.
That was until about 2 weeks ago. I wanted to shoot at 100 ISO outside, because it’s just too much fun to see my photos with almost no noise in them. I affixed the UV lens and went out to shoot in the generally sunny day. In affecting how much light entered the camera, the UV lens has to be turned, so I did so, and for comparison, I took one at the least-powerful setting. Check out the result, though. These photos were both shot at the same ISO, same f-stop, same shutter speed:
Low filter versus high filter:
