Clear UV for keeping that lens clean. ND filter basically just "darkens" the shot so you can use a slower shutter speed so you can get blurred shots in the day time. You can shoot timelpases just fine without one, just depends on what style you are going for.

I keep UV's on my lenses to keep em safe but I have never messed around with ND's. Starting out I wouldn't worry about it too much

cydwhitClear UV for keeping that lens clean. ND filter basically just "darkens" the shot so you can use a slower shutter speed so you can get blurred shots in the day time. You can shoot timelpases just fine without one, just depends on what style you are going for.

I keep UV's on my lenses to keep em safe but I have never messed around with ND's. Starting out I wouldn't worry about it too much

Only reason why I mention ND's is because my brother has one and too some really good shots with it in the daylight. Said that it tricks the camera into thing its night basically so the light and color is much more sharp. I'm sure I summarized that terribly.

theBearJewOnly reason why I mention ND's is because my brother has one and too some really good shots with it in the daylight. Said that it tricks the camera into thing its night basically so the light and color is much more sharp. I'm sure I summarized that terribly.

Sure, I guess, haha, that's a fine definition. I would recommend that when you get the camera you go and research shutter speed, aperture and iso. Get a good grasp on what each of those three things do and you can do just about anything with your camera, it's incredible how many people don't learn those three simple concepts and create terrible things with nice cameras

After poking around the internet for awhile, I'm seeing that there is a huge gap in the cheap filters ($10-$20) to the expensive ones ($50-$100). are the expensive filters really worth it? Could I get by with one of the higher end cheap filters? I bought the bestbuy brand one yesterday, its called Platinum. Wondering how good that actually is or how bad.

theBearJewOnly reason why I mention ND's is because my brother has one and too some really good shots with it in the daylight. Said that it tricks the camera into thing its night basically so the light and color is much more sharp. I'm sure I summarized that terribly.

it doesnt trick the camera, optimally you are making all the decisions for the camera as far as exposure (like shooting manually). the point of a nd is to remove light for long exposures. like if you want to take a 10 second exposure of something in bright daylight, you can only lower your iso so much and use a lower aperature while still getting the same effect.

say you want to shoot something at 10 sec exposure and f/5.6 in the middle of the day for any reason, it might still be overexposed even with the lowest iso. a nd filter would be used to remove another however many stops of light you need to get the proper exposure.

putting anything in front of the lens will decrease optical quality. why buy a super nice lens and mess up the pictures with a cheap filter (unless of course you buy a really nice one). if its a shitty lens it really doesnt need to be protected. wait until you see the need for a filter for particular shots, then start getting them

the only exception to this imo is i use a ~$30 polarizing filter when im filming because ive had too much snow sprayed at me and i want to protect the front element of my lens from it, and it helps cut down a slight amount of glare from the snow

I think I'm gonna pick this up, 3 filters for a good price I think. Don't seem like the cheapest shit filters so and I have read Hoya is bad quality.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1029135-REG/hoya_hk_dg58_ii_58mm_digital_filter_kit.html

Polarizer filters are nice to have.

I just went out and purchased my first filters this week and played around with them yesterday. I got a tiffen nd 3.0, tiffen polarizer, and hoya uv.

Haven't used the polarizer or uv much, just some basic shots outside my house to see how they worked. I did use my nd filter though chasing waterfalls yesterday. The thing about nd filters is they come in different "sized" meaning some are darker than others. I got a 3.0 which is really dark but it's what I wanted for my purposes. During the middle of the day around 2:00-3:00 I was shooting with the 3.0 on my canon t2i at f/2.8 and 25"-30" exposure. So it's pretty limited to really long exposed shots but it's perfect for what I wanted. Just make sure you do some research on the nd filters because getting the right sized one is key.

Here is the shot I was talking about during the middle of the day.