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>1) When using a polarizer or colored filters (color and B&W film), is >using a UV filter also necessary/good to do? (...)
>2) Have people found the Tiffen "Enhancing" filters as enhancing as the >ads would suggest? Its a bit expensive to just try for kicks.
-1) No.
-2) "Enhancing" is not the word I would use - the word is "distorting".
I occasionally like the effect, but "natural" it isn't. The filter can be useful in perking up a dullish evening photo, a fall scene in which
the colors are not at their peak and you want a bit of pizzazz at the risk of a bit of artificiality, or any other place where a little hype
may be desired. This filter and the polarizer are both too easy to spot
when they have been used to make photographs - the results look wrong
to me most of the time. The world is so full of wonderful things to
photograph as they are that I do not often feel the need to distort
images much beyond what is inevitable and pleasant in the photographic process.
Hope this helps.