Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
Thanks, Bob. Most of the serious filter companies offer something similar in terms of guidelines. The old Kodak Wratten guides were excellent in terms of spectrograms, transmission values etc. But I still strongly believe one still has to go beyond basic information and do some testing of their own based on situations they are likely to encounter. But I'm more fussy about hue rendition than most photographers; and decades of high altitude photography gives me an appreciation that even that category of work contains variables. Someone might think 6000 ft equates to high altitude; but to my manner of thinking, that's way down, still in the pollen and haze zone. Up at timberline it has a different connotation. And way up in the Andes or Himalayas, something even more so. So owning just one choice of UV filter doesn't necessarily solve the problem, even if you're only using one kind of film.
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