I'll accept your judgment on UV filters at altitude. High altitude
shooting is not part of my normal activity. However, I thought that the
glass in modern lenses, films and IR/UV cutoff filters on sensors
already did a fair job of excluding UV.
Chuck Norcutt
Jim Couch wrote:
> Maybe it is just me, but I don't see how one can compensate for a large
> dynamic range without either loosing some highlights, or getting a lot
> of noise in the shadowed areas short of some kind of HDR software or
> using layers. A grad ND filter just seems to me, to work better and
> easier, for very little cost. Most (free) camera supplied software does
> not seem to offer these kinds features. All the HDR software I have
> tried requires a fair amount of computer 'horsepower' to work very
> efficiently, not a problem for the occasional image maybe, but when you
> come back weekend after weekend with these kinds of shots it is a
> different story. If there is a way to easily & efficiently do this in
> Olympus' software or Elements 5 (both of which I have) on an older
> windows machine I would love to know how.
>
> As for UV filters - do some shooting at altitude with long lenses - they
> do make a difference, and I certainly have never seen any software at
> any price that can recover details lost to haze. Just like polarizers,
> to the best of my knowledge there are some filters that just can't be
> reproduced in post.
>
> Jim Couch
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> I can't argue with what you feel comfortable with and the methods you
>> prefer to use. But the specifics of what you are doing should be easily
>> done in the camera supplied software or any of several free applications.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>>>
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