Polariser AND or OR UV filter?

[ChrisR]

I've recently got my Pentax ME (F/1.7 50mm) back from my son, and am experimenting with it. He had a circular polariser on over the basic UV filter. This seems like overkill to me, so I took the polariser off. I'm about to shoot a roll of Sensia as an experiment; landscape and townscape mostly, I expect. So am I better with

a) just the UV filter
b) just the polariser, or
c) both?

Comments welcome! (I realise the answer is likely to be "it depends..." but I'm hoping to learn something anyway. Thanks (gotta do something while my X10 gets its eyes fixed!),

 

[SimonUK]

I've recently got my Pentax ME (F/1.7 50mm) back from my son, and am experimenting with it. He had a circular polariser on over the basic UV filter. This seems like overkill to me, so I took the polariser off. I'm about to shoot a roll of Sensia as an experiment; landscape and townscape mostly, I expect. So am I better with

a) just the UV filter
b) just the polariser, or
c) both?

Comments welcome! (I realise the answer is likely to be "it depends..." but I'm hoping to learn something anyway. Thanks (gotta do something while my X10 gets its eyes fixed!),

The UV Filter is more needed for Film due to its sensitivity to UV light, but the Polariser shouldn't just ben used as a generall filter imo. So unless its being used, keep it off the lens

Personally i don't use any UV Filters, just a Hood.

 

[s162216]

The UV Filter is more needed for Film due to its sensitivity to UV light, but the Polariser shouldn't just ben used as a generall filter imo. So unless its being used, keep it off the lens

Personally i don't use any UV Filters, just a Hood.

These days the sensitivity of film to UV is overated as technology is improved to the extent that their not half as sensitive as they used to.

Keep the UV filter if you want protection and use the polariser when needed.

 

[AJQS]

I don't think any currently available colour films are UV sensitive, but I stand to be corrected.

As with any other UV thread, keep it on if there's a danger of blowing sand or such like, otherwise lose it.

If it's a skylight lose it regardless, or you'll have a strange pinkish glow to clouds!

 

[ChrisR]

If it's a skylight lose it regardless, or you'll have a strange pinkish glow to clouds!

Hmm, I'm guessing that the words "Hoya 49mm SKYLIGHT(1A)" round the filter are not good news, then . Oh dear. I don't like to leave the lens bare, so perhaps I'd better look for something else...

 

[TheGreatSoprendo]

I almost always leave my lenses bare these days, with the main exception of colour filtration for B&W film, and even then only sometimes. I do have a polariser but rarely use that either to be honest as I don't like losing a couple of stops of light and try to use as slow a film as I can get away with.

Obviously, there's a risk I'll damage a lens at some point, but most of my use is fairly gentle and I like to think I maximise the performance of the lenses this way.

Certainly I wouldn't use the polariser unless you specifically want the effect it gives in a shot - it's not the kind of filter to leave on a lens.