"Carl Swanson" <csswanson@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:404bed44.0407021808.6410cce0@posting.google.com...

(This is best asked elsewhere, in another video NG, but since

you're here...)

> Hoping someone can help a relative-newbie camera-wise about some

> lenses and filters.

>

> For my Sony digital camcorder (TRV 38) I want to get 3 filters (UV,

> polorization, florescent) and also a wide angle lense and a telephoto

> lense.

Skip the fluorescent, the polarizer is good for outdoors

on sunny days for intensifying colors, and the UV is for

lens protection only.

> If I want one or two of the filters on with the lenses, what

> order do I put them on.

>

> - filter on the camera, then the lense on the filter?

> - lense on the camera then filter on the lense?

> - either?

Putting a filter between the camera lens and converter

may cause problems; putting it on the front of the converter

may not be possible. Maybe you don't need filters...

> This matters, since the ring size for the front of the lense is

> not the same as the back, thus depending on where I need to put

> the filters is the size filters I need to get.

>

> Oh, another question is, do the filters help at all? Are they

> a gimmick?

Most are...

Most tele converters are poor - but a few WA

converters are sharp enough to be worthwhile.

Camcorders come with long lenses, but they

are not very wide, so the WA is the most useful

item other than a UV (a good close-up lens can

be good cheap fun, though! ;-).

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David Ruether

d_ruether@hotmail.com

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com