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Quantarray filters?
The local Ritz has a sale on Quantarray filters and I was wondering what people here thought of them. Should I pick up a few? Oct 05 06 04:57 pm Link your camera can't focus on the filter, so it sorta doesn't mater, except that quantaray coatings might not be as good, there arent that many filter making companies out there, and rumour has it that quantaray filters are made by hoya or tiffen anyways... who knows Oct 05 06 05:16 pm Link While I don't know who makes quanteray filters but having worked in camera stores for some time I can say with a FACT that the filter can make a huge difference. I will only use B+W, Hoya HMC or Promaster Digital UV filters. For general effects like polarizers I like B+W and Hoya HMC (Matter of fact anything that is B+W or Hoya HMC is pretty safe). Tiffin makes awesome effect filters like thir 812 warming and I am itching to play with their new Glimmerglass and Smoque filters. For inexpensive and pretty good go with Promaster, they are made by Hoya for Pro and ar a little less expensive than their Hoya counterpart. The last Quateray filter I bought is with the last Smegma (er ah, Sigma) lens I owned. 24 Miles offshore at the bottom of the Atlantic. R_L Oct 05 06 07:42 pm Link Don't know who makes Quantaray filters; I do know their tripods/monopods are made by Slik and their flashes by Sunpak. Promaster products are jobbed out order by order and the filter shipped to retailers this month may not be made by the same manufacturer as the one they shipped last month. That may or may not be a real problem, though. I've never had any trouble with the Promaster zoom lens I bought in 1985. Oct 05 06 07:53 pm Link Raven_Lakota wrote: eew. Oct 05 06 07:55 pm Link I have several Quantaray filters (buy 2 get 1 free is not a new special at Ritz - they've had this for awhile now). I recently got a UV from Hoya and like it better than the Quantaray MC UV lens that I have. I also have a Quantaray circular polarizer which I need to return to Ritz. (I can't turn the polarizer without the entire filter being screwed off my camera lens.) Oct 06 06 02:11 am Link Raven_Lakota wrote: Ched wrote: smear it on for a soft focus effect.... Oct 06 06 08:44 am Link Maybe move this to the Photographer's Forum. You're likely to get decent feedback there. Oct 06 06 08:47 am Link lotusphoto wrote: by this i mean, your camera with some lens focuses down to 14 inches, the filter is zero inches, the filter is 'out of focus' Oct 07 06 01:14 pm Link lotusphoto wrote: That was me, thanks for the clarification. Oct 07 06 01:19 pm Link In many ways this continued debate over which products are better or if a product is good are pointless. Very often two or more of a like product are produced by the same company. Nikon sensors I believe have or are produced by Sony. At around the same price point my expirence is products are at the same level of quality. A D-70 is about the same in quality as a E-300 or E-500 and a Cannon digital rebel. There may be one or two things that pull one camera above another but construction and resolution are often very close. I'm not sure who really makes the Ritz camera filters. Oct 07 06 01:44 pm Link |
