Help with filters

[tiewrapdiver]

I'm looking at getting a blue and green water filter for my wide angle lens to help with colour balance before I invest in strobes.

Which filters do you recommend, i've been looking at the UR ones, and where is the cheapest place to get them from?

Thanks.

Tim

[tiewrapdiver]

Forgot to ask what filter I would need for Cyprus on the Zenobia. Green water or blue water?

[Jules]

I have just ordered some magic filters, everyone is raving about them and thought I would give them a go. They do 3 types, for blue water, green water and Bluewater for compact camera with no white balance adjustment, any how read up on them here

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Jules

[Okeanos]

There's also some info on people using them on Digigreen.net

[witchieblackcat]

Originally Posted by tiewrapdiver

What filter would I need for Cyprus on the Zenobia. Green water or blue water?

I would go for blue

[Mick F]

Go for the Blue (Orange) filter for Cyprus, but don't forget that the filter will knock at least one stop of light out.

TBH I've found that filters in blue water are really only of use down to about 25M. In green water, they can be next to useless dependng on viz.

YMMV.

[Tim Ingmire]

Give Peter Rowlands a call at PR Productions and he'll advise which Magic Filter to use in which waters.

Tim

[patto_chan]

I've thought about using filters but what's the point if you can change the colour balance in an application for editing digital photographs?

Doesn't post-dive digital manipulation leave you with more options?

[triplefin]

Originally Posted by patto_chan

Doesn't post-dive digital manipulation leave you with more options?

Yes

[Mick F]

Originally Posted by triplefin

Yes

Yes if you shoot RAW. If you use jpeg then you degrade the image just by changing the colour balance & if it's too far off then it can be next to impossible to get it back again without losing a shedload of the image detail.