Digital Camera Filters

These are lens accessories in the field of photography. They are placed or screwed on at the front of a camera lens. Digital cameras, film cameras, video cameras, and still cameras all have a use for digital camera filters.

There are numerous choices for almost all photography conditions. They can be grouped according to use. The kinds of digital camera filters are the protective and UV, the polarizing, the neutral density, the ultra thin, the special effects, the colored, the warming and the cooling, and they have their own equipment and accessories too.

The accessories are spacer rings, wallets and stackers for storage, conversion rings and adapters for mounting on camera, adapter tubes and adapter rings. Within the classification of protective and UV there is the sky, the UV, and the protector. Polarizing has the circular polarizer and moose and the linear polarizer and linear focus. Special effects include a wide range such as the cross screen, the stars 4, 6, and 8, the soft screen, the close up, the split field filters, the special effect, multivision, and mirage, the pop sets, the rainbow spot, the dual image, the sepia, the zoom spot, the misty spot such as the breeze, halo, windmill, and gradual, the softeners, the infrared, the intensifier, the diffusion, and the fog. Colored has the choice of tri color, half colored, gradual colored and special fluorescent. Warming and cooling have a range of 80 A, B, and C for artificial light, the 81 A, B, and C for warming effects, the 82 A, B, and C for cooling effect.

All filters when used on camera lenses create a different effect on the photographs. Each effect can be guessed at by the names of the lens accessory. Using these is part of advanced photography techniques.