Macro Accessory Kit
Macro Accessory Kit
I have some extra money to blow on camera accessories?
Right now I'm shooting with a Lumix G1 and kit 14-44mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. I mainly shoot portraits and landscapes. I'd like to get either:
-a nice set of filters, uv, nd, color, polarizers, etc
-a wide angle/fisheye attachment and a macro attachment
-a decent speedlite flash
Which one should I get? Which one is most important? Which one do you think I'll get he most use out of?
Thank you!
LOL, well I'd get a new lens *if* I had hundreds of dollars to spend, but I don't. And no, I haven't purchased any filters yet, are you saying that's what I should purchase first?
If you shoot a lot of portraits definitely a dedicated flash.
You don't need many filters with digital. A polariser, may be Neutral density filters to hold back the light for slow shutter speeds to deliberately blur movement such as water. A graduated grey for holding back a bright sky and that's about it. UV filters were necessary with film high up in mountains or on a beach where UV is high as film is sensitive to UV, digital sensors aren't.
Effects such as starburst, graduated colour, plain colour etc.are best done in post processing with much more control. Conversion filters are not necessary either, they were for converting film equalised for daylight to tungsten, fluorescent etc. or vice versa, digital can handle colour balance either in camera or in post processing.
Forget a 'protection' filter unless you like pictures with flare and tricky auto focusing, coated filters which might ease this problem are as expensive as the lens. A thin piece of glass is hardly likely to protect the lens mechanically (just the opposite in fact, they can shatter and scratch the lens coating), a decent lens hood does a better job of that, and anybody who get finger marks on his precious lenses doesn't deserve to have them.
Wind blown sand may be an argument, but I have 40 year old lenses that have been down coal mines and in steel works as good today as the day I bought them. 'Protection' filters are a sure sign of an amateur, I don't know of any professional that uses them, they are much more concerned with image quality.
Chris
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