Some Suggested Reading/Videos about FILTERS

1. SUGGESTED READING: 

Guide to Camera Filters and How to Use Them

How, When and Why to Use a Polarizing Filter and this is also good explanation of polarizer filters

Tiffen Filter Guide 
(Please read about the many kinds of filters but look specifically for the filters that we have for the SONY HDV cameras - see list below)

In TCF we have the following filters for the HDV cameras:

Most commonly used:

UV --- to protect the glass on the camera lenses

Polarizer ---- to reduce glare on glass and water and to enhance sky

Other filters we have:

Soft Con

Graduated

Color Graduated

Promist

Black Promist

and a few others...

2. WATCH A FEW CLIPS:

 




Note: the effect of the filter and how the effect is adjusted by rotating the filter

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DSLR FILTER BONUS:

Later in the course we'll move to DSLR cinematography. One of the limitations of these cameras is the moire effect. Here's a filter that eliminates it! We don't have one (yet) in TCF, but watch how it works:

Canon 7D Anti-Aliasing Filter Review - Clean! from cinema5D on Vimeo.

Here are some links about it that you should read

1. NoFilmSchool's post with Philip Bloom video about 5D filter fix

2.  Positives and negatives about 7D filter by Cinema5D

Also please note that we NEVER take a screwdriver to the inside of a TCF camera --- John Chisholm will do that for us! ; )