whats your favorite filter ?

eclarke · Jul 18, 2011

3 stop 4"x 5" red gradient, soft transition..EC

zsas · Jul 18, 2011

Yellow

Gerald C Koch · Jul 18, 2011

I'm assuming you mean camera filter for black and white film. What filter you use depends on your subject. So your question as asked is unanswerable. People who do landscapes will say something entirely different from people who do figure studies.

Bob-D659 · Jul 18, 2011

I'll agree with Gerald, otherwise a generic #4 white coffee filter, second is the 3M hepa type air filter on the darkroom fan.

removed account4 · Jul 18, 2011

Gerald C Koch said:
I'm assuming you mean camera filter. What filter you use depends on your subject. So your question as asked is unanswerable. People who do landscapes will say something entirely different from people who do figure studies.

seems answerable to the others who have answered the question
the question is personal ...
what is your favorite filter ... for "whatever" ... landscapes, nudes, portraits underwater fish photos ...

Renato Tonelli · Jul 18, 2011

For Color: Polarizer
For B&W: Yellow 8

alapin · Jul 18, 2011

Use yellow mostly, some green and orange.

vpwphoto · Jul 18, 2011

Apug needs a filter to keeps post like this out!

Vaughn · Jul 18, 2011

My ex-wife's pantyhose.

Used to filter the Glop (pigmented gelatin) for pouring carbon tissues for making carbon prints.

On camera -- usually none, but I do like a yellow filter in the Redwoods during the Fall to pop the yellow leaves (maples, buckthorn, berries, etc).

Vaughn

vpwphoto · Jul 18, 2011

Sorry to offend the OP.
Filters are tools for me. You need a tool, you use a tool... no favoritism for me.

Gerald C Koch · Jul 18, 2011

jnanian said:
the question is personal

Which is why I have a problem with such questions. I am tired of questions such as: "What is your favorite camera?", "What is your favorite film?", etc ad nauseam. The posters deliberately make the questions as vague as possible. If they really wanted useful information they would be very specific. These questions are meaningless and so are all the answers.

vpwphoto · Jul 18, 2011

Gerald C Koch said:
Which is why I have a problem with such questions. I am tired of questions such as: "What is your favorite camera?", "What is your favorite film?", etc ad nauseam. The posters deliberately make the questions as vague as possible. If they really wanted useful information they would be very specific. These questions are meaningless and so are all the answers.

Thanks Gerald... my feeling exactly, I just wasn't as articulate and PC as you.
Heck the heat index here in Indiana is about 110° F.

eclarke · Jul 18, 2011

The problem with forums is that nitprickers will spend more effort deriding your post than it would take to answer the question when they could just ignore it and shut up..EC

Notice the spelling on the seventh word...and I do have a favorite filter and assumed that since it was a photo forum the question was specific..

Vaughn · Jul 18, 2011

Gerald C Koch said:
...If they really wanted useful information they would be very specific. These questions are meaningless and so are all the answers.

I will disagree with you.

1) I believe the question is a very general one for the purpose for the generating ideas, sharing info and making conversation.

2) I aint too hot about your answer either.

3) If you don't like these types of questions, why did you even bother clicking on the this topic...except for the chance to make negative comments...which are the most useless types of posts on this and any forum.

Dang...I think I just pulled a #3!

Vaughn

Ken Nadvornick · Jul 18, 2011

Gerald C Koch said:
Which is why I have a problem with such questions. I am tired of questions such as: "What is your favorite camera?", "What is your favorite film?", etc ad nauseam. The posters deliberately make the questions as vague as possible. If they really wanted useful information they would be very specific. These questions are meaningless and so are all the answers.

I, too, will respectfully disagree with you.

It was a fun question. I gave what I considered to be an offbeat - albeit true - fun answer. I've enjoyed reading other poster's fun answers. And their slightly more serious answers. It's a pleasant way to pass some time. Especially if you happen to be stuck in front of a computer anyway.

What's wrong with that?

If you are seriously committed to conversing only when useful or necessary or critical information is involved, I'm currently participating in (there was a url link here which no longer exists) regarding the use of a specific Roscoe special effects material that makes a perfect DIY cutoff filter for the Thomas Duplex low-pressure sodium safelight, thereby dramatically increasing its safe time before paper fogging occurs.

Maybe you could come on over and participate there as well?

Ken

Gerald C Koch · Jul 18, 2011

Ken Nadvornick said:
It was a fun question. I gave what I considered to be an offbeat - albeit true - fun answer.

Forgive me but I thought that the purpose of APUG was the sharing of useful information among serious photographers. Perhaps APUG should start a jokes forum for those desiring entertainment.

ColdEye · Jul 18, 2011

a red and a CPL.

Ken Nadvornick · Jul 18, 2011

Gerald C Koch said:
Forgive me but I thought that the purpose of APUG was the sharing of useful information among serious photographers. Perhaps APUG should start a jokes forum for those desiring entertainment.

As I said, Jerry, my answer was true. One photographer's useless is another photographer's useful.

If you happen to be using an Aristo VCL unit and your blue tube begins to fade, thus skewing your light output to the green side, then a CP60M might be just the workaround you need to save you from having to spend ~$600 for an immediate replacement set of tubes.

It temporarily worked for me...

My wife liked it...

And it was an offbeat answer to a fun question at the same time. If we are not enjoying photography, why are we doing it in the first place?

Ken

Ken Nadvornick · Jul 18, 2011

So to get back on track, I'll go ahead and add that Roscoe Roscolux #19 Fire special effects filter to this thread...

Put it between two sheets of glass and add it to your Thomas Duplex (or other) sodium safelight, and it will act as a dandy low-pass cutoff filter to eliminate the several higher frequency green and blue spikes characteristic of the low-pressure sodium vapor lamps. The idea is to pass as much of the doublet light as possible, while removing all higher frequencies that fog your papers. It's worked very well for me.

Ken

David A. Goldfarb · Jul 18, 2011

Medium yellow, occasionally orange for B&W.

MattKing · Jul 18, 2011

Gerald C Koch said:
Which is why I have a problem with such questions. I am tired of questions such as: "What is your favorite camera?", "What is your favorite film?", etc ad nauseam. The posters deliberately make the questions as vague as possible. If they really wanted useful information they would be very specific. These questions are meaningless and so are all the answers.

The OP's question is akin to asking something like:

"What filter do you find most interesting?"

It leads to interesting discourse, and invites people to answer the related question: "And why?".

For posters that either have photos in the APUG galleries, or links to websites or flikr streams posted, it allows others to review their answer, and then review the poster's work, and maybe learn something.

And it is a far, far better question then this one: "What is the best filter?"

Sometimes answers aren't necessarily the only thing I'm looking for when I ask a question.

jvo · Jul 18, 2011

kermit

green

Bob-D659 · Jul 18, 2011

To add to my previous post. The dust filter is the 3M Filtrete Ultimate allergen furnace filter with the 1900 rating. It does a fantastic job of reducing the dust specs who like to sit on negatives. It lives in a custom foamcore 16x25" filter box attached to a 12" fan.

Sirius Glass · Jul 18, 2011

Bob,

I like the K&N filter on my off roading vehicle. It is cleanable and good up to 50,000 miles between cleanings and cleanable over 100 times.

http://www.knfilters.com/filtercharger.htm

Steve

whlogan · Jul 18, 2011

As probably the only odd-ball here, for B&W work, I favor a #29 Red or a #22 Orange.... I want those skies to sing.... I mean SING!
Logan

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