Are color filters any good with a DSLR?

railman44 · Jul 6, 2005

With b&w film color filters can really make the difference. Are they worth a hoot with digital cameras?

fadingaway1986 · Jul 6, 2005

I would like to know this also.

ksmattfish · Jul 6, 2005

You can achieve the affects of most colored filters when you convert a color file into a BW file with Adobe PS, or other graphics editor, but if you want to use a filter on the lens you could.

Digital Matt · Jul 6, 2005

There's really no need. As Matt said, you can control that very easily in PS via the channel mixer.

Eric. · Jul 6, 2005

Yes. I like them. However, the one I use (my fathers 20-D) comes with built in filters. It's nice and you can definetly achieve nice results with them. I'm not big into fooling around with my pictures in photoshop to much.

DocFrankenstein · Jul 7, 2005

You really have to need to use a particular filter when shooting 20D.

It's like shooting slide with a filter, and then printing on BW paper.

thebeginning · Jul 7, 2005

for bw shots, there is no need. for color shots, it can help quite a bit (i hope i dont get killed for this), a.k.a. a polariser and ND grads. some of this you can achieve in post processing, but it doesnt look quite as good and is more of a pain to do it all in photoshop.