hey guys. i'm trying to find out what to do when taking shots on bright sunny days where the sun seems to darken the color of the cars. i know their are good filters out there so i guess i'm looking for a nice filter that will help out with shots on sunny days. i have the Canon G5 with the .7x wide lens

You could try a Neutral Density (DN) filter aling with a polarizer ($50-$100). That will reduce the amount of light entering the lens to prevent glare, and the polarizer should reduce the sunspots and flatten the reflections..(don't know how to explain it well).

Yes, a neurtral density filter should allow you to soak in more light without washing out your photos. Also, a polarizing filter is probably exactly what you'd need as well. Polarizing filters can deepen the color of the sky and remove glare from windows, water, glass, etc. It's quite amazing actually. I've got a Hoya circular polarizing filter. It is essentially "half" polarizied so when you rotate it, you can choose what you want polarized and what you do not want polarized.

I need to dig up some photos from my old hard drive, but here's one I've got backed up. It's of my friend's car and notice how I used it to deepen the color of the sky.

ok so where would i be able to get one of these filters and 2nd do they make a filter for my wider lens which is what i'm going to use at meets and shoots?

ok so where would i be able to get one of these filters and 2nd do they make a filter for my wider lens which is what i'm going to use at meets and shoots?

My favorite place to shop is B&H - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

They make filters for every single size lens. Just look at what mm your lens is.

GREAT picture, Brendan! :thumbup:

bluelex, you can filters for any size of lens, as long as the lens has filter attachment threads on it.

Hoya's good. B+W is good. I've heard mixed things about Tiffen. The UV one I got for my new Canon seems to make the picture a bit softer, so I've taken it off.

Stick with the B+W. Tiffen is definitely mixed. Used to use these on my Canon L2 Hi8 camcorder (the same one used in the movie Titanic) and it softened up the picture.

Percy

GREAT picture, Brendan! :thumbup:

bluelex, you can filters for any size of lens, as long as the lens has filter attachment threads on it.

Hoya's good. B+W is good. I've heard mixed things about Tiffen. The UV one I got for my new Canon seems to make the picture a bit softer, so I've taken it off.