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Larry "fushbio" of nikoncafe gave me permission to use some of his sample pictures on my blog regarding the effect of cheap filters on image quality .
I though this was one subject worth making 'permanent' on my site and useful information for those of you wanting to know what filters are good because the conversation brought up a link with some comparisons as well .

Here is one of the images without and with the filter , the full story is on my blog .




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I'm quite surprised to see such a big difference in the picture quality between these two.
I always thought the real difference (between UV filter or no filter) appears when you are shooting under tricky lighting condition, for example: strong light source in front of the camera, high contrast...etc, then you'll have flare, low contrast and all those sort of problems.

So i'm quite amazed for this kind of pictures there is still quite a big difference in the picture quality.

Thanks for the pictures and the link Desmond.

I am very surprised. Care to share what kind of filter was used?

(04-09-2010 06:56 AM)yellow15 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm quite surprised to see such a big difference in the picture quality between these two.
I always thought the real difference (between UV filter or no filter) appears when you are shooting under tricky lighting condition, for example: strong light source in front of the camera, high contrast...etc, then you'll have flare, low contrast and all those sort of problems.
So i'm quite amazed for this kind of pictures there is still quite a big difference in the picture quality.
Thanks for the pictures and the link Desmond.

(04-09-2010 04:04 PM)CTM Wrote: [ -> ]I am very surprised. Care to share what kind of filter was used?

I was also surprised by the difference . I only know which brand filter was mentioned [ as shown in my blog ] , I wouldn't have a picture of it but if you visit the other site of tests you will see quite a few different models .

With my new Hoya pro1 filter .....

Nice comparison Desmond!

thanks for the test pic desmond!

Wow.
Took my UV filter long ago actually.
Went live.

Wow, I didn't think the difference was that noticeable. Wow. I am using Hoya at the moment.