Ultraviolet Filters

When shopping for camera filter types search for ultraviolet (UV) filters. UV filters not only helps to absorb harmful UV rays, but also protects a camera's lens from scratches, breaking, dust, and moisture. Use an UV filter to produce clearer and sharper pictures. Also aids to sharpen hazy photos.

Ultra violet light produces a bluish or violet cast on film and video tapes. It also fades out background details. A photo taken without a UV filter ends up light and faded. Those taken with a UV filter comes out vibrant, especially the blue sky.

UV filters normally mean untinted filters, but also include skylight and haze filters. Both skylight and haze filters come tinted to offset blue, green and red colors. Haze and fog cause dust particles to float in the air and drown out a photo. Haze filters offer a clearer photo on hot or humid days. Skylight has a pinkish color that takes out some of the blue on a bright sunny day and adds warmth to the sky color.

Digital photographers will find UV filters to fit digital cameras with removable lenses. Many digital cameras come with built in ultra violet filter lenses. UV filters come with either a metal, or plastic ring.

A 105 mm UV filter creates a sharper black and white photo by cutting haze and fog. Certain brands correct blue and violet colors in the photos. These come as multi coated lenses that helps reduce reflection from glass and water. A 105 mm UV filter is useful outdoors, in photo shoots, and regular snap shot photos.

The Hoya 52mm UV filter performs great for sharpening color photos as well as black and white. The Hoya UV filters come with a special protective coating and come with a multi purpose filter for fine weather. Some photographers use it as a permanent lens protector. These work on Nikon, Canon, and any other 52mm cameras.

A 58mm UV filter helps protect film, which is more sensitive than human eyes. Like other UV filters, they can be kept on the lens at all times. Brands that make these include Hoya, Tiffen, Jessops, Nikon, and Canon. Hoya also makes an ultra thin UV filter for both regular and digital cameras.

Search online for makers of camera UV filters, their uses, and photographs posted by users to see the difference. The cost for a typical ultra violet filter is generally around twenty dollars.