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SA Chris:
I try and avoid them but , sadly, up here I have little choice.

If anyone wnats to know more about filters, the new Practical Photography mag has a good article about them, if you have some spare time in WHS.

Obi-Wan is lost...:
Personally I like some of the more tasteful and creative Cokin filters...my personal favorites are ....
209 Multi-Parallel
http://www.geocities.com/cokinfiltersystem/14a05470.jpg

...397 Pre-Shaped frames http://www.geocities.com/cokinfiltersystem/1773fd20.jpg
and http://www.geocities.com/cokinfiltersystem/61390ff0.jpg  695 Soft Champagne...mmmmmm, always going to improve a quality photo that one... :wink:

SA Chris:
Some really tasteful ones there! As far as using filters in movies goes, Top Gun uses some nice pink and purple grads to get realistic sunset shots, very subtle.

bob:
cool thats alot of useful knowledge on the filter front. i might try with some different films maybe make the commitment to slide. any reccomendations regarding films i seem to use alot of fuji stuff someone told me the blues and greens are better?

SA Chris:
I think once you have used slide film and seen the results, photos are always disappointing in comparison. I rarely go back, except when shooting somewhere that there's a lot of snow; while boaridng or mountaineering, as I never get exposure right there.

You need to be very accurate with metering when shooting slide, as it can't be corrected at the priniting stage. Don't be shy to bracket when you are starting out; better 1 decent shot in 3 than 36 wrongly exposed ones.

I am a big fan of Fuji film; used Velvia 50 for a while, but it is a bit slow for use in poor light conditions. I now use Provia 100 II whenever possible, nice saturation of most colours, but not garish. Astia is apparently best for true colour representation, although I can't really tell the difference.

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