My First Set with my new Xti

[97mits3kgtSOHC]

^yea but the lady at ritz was trying to sell me a $30 clear uv filter from quantary...ill go on newegg or something and order from there

thanks for the info

but for knowledge sake....what is the difference bw a polarizing and a clear uv? polarizing for intense sunlight?

[Macky]

Originally Posted by 97mits3kgtSOHC

^yea but the lady at ritz was trying to sell me a $30 clear uv filter from quantary...ill go on newegg or something and order from there

thanks for the info

but for knowledge sake....what is the difference bw a polarizing and a clear uv? polarizing for intense sunlight?

UV - does pretty much nothing except to protect the lens. the sensor has a UV low-pass filter anyway to filter out UV rays.

Polarizer - reduces glare on shiny items like fruit, glass, water, etc.

[97mits3kgtSOHC]

Originally Posted by Macky

UV - does pretty much nothing except to protect the lens. the sensor has a UV low-pass filter anyway to filter out UV rays.

Polarizer - reduces glare on shiny items like fruit, glass, water, etc.

ill try getting some more shots today at sunset with it off and post my results

[leet]

Originally Posted by Macky

UV - does pretty much nothing except to protect the lens. the sensor has a UV low-pass filter anyway to filter out UV rays.

Polarizer - reduces glare on shiny items like fruit, glass, water, etc.

and I almost always use a CPL for car shots

like my sigpic I used a CPL

[Macky]

Originally Posted by leet

and I almost always use a CPL for car shots

like my sigpic I used a CPL

your sigpic is classic

[97mits3kgtSOHC]

any other suggestions....i noticed i mess with fstop a lot...should i just stick with like f6 for a while til i get better and then move to a different setting?

[DBLerman]

I still stand by my statement that the reason your pics are dark is because your shutter speed is way too fast for the amount of light you were shooting in. The EXIF data from your images confirms this.

[Red92vr4]

Originally Posted by 97mits3kgtSOHC

any other suggestions....i noticed i mess with fstop a lot...should i just stick with like f6 for a while til i get better and then move to a different setting?

Haha, what? No, experiment with different apertures (f/stops), as they will lend themselves to different effects. Generally, the sharpest images happen in the f/8-f/16 range. Anything below, or above those apertures will look slightly out of focus due to either a wide open aperture, or diffraction. Remember that as you decrease the size of the aperture (larger number), you increase your depth of field, or the area of the image that is in focus. Also, looking at those night time photos, you seem to have a circular polarizer, not a UV haze filter.

[leet]

Originally Posted by Macky

your sigpic is classic

thanks

[James92TSi]

Originally Posted by leet

I use Av mode 90% of the time if I'm not using flash

and Tv for panning shots

Same here... I basically stick to Av (my "general everything" mode), Tv (for pans), and Sports mode (for still frames of moving subjects).

I'm gonna have to try my CPL filter some time. I have filters but haven't really gotten into using them yet (other than the "lens protector" filter ). I did some night shots of cars last weekend (TX2K8 Supra meet) and some reduction in glare spots would have been handy.