hello all, sorry to cause a debate, was just trying to be helpful is all, but then i'm no one to be helping anyone as i'm cluless! so i'll be keeping my mouth shut from now on that's for sure!!! the reason i got the filter was to protect my lens, also to see if it would improve the quality of my day shots. i go into the woods alot and get myself into very odd and unstable postitions and being broke it's cheaper to buy a filter then to buy a lens. as for the flaring, well i can't say one way or the other if it's due to the filter or not as i've had flares happen without it and i always use the hood so again i can't say if that helps or not. ghosting..what's that(see what i mean)??? being lazy i did screw on an orange filter right on top of the skylight and i did get a lot of flare but with either one or the other not both, i don't get much flare if at all! i'll try shooting without it and see what happens! another artist here suggested that the flaring is due to stopping down..now that i'd agree with as lately i've been playing with the aperture in an attempt to learn how to better use my camera but then i don't know any better one way or the other to say for sure. i'm not a professional nor do i claim to be, i just go out and do my thing, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. everything i've done so far is the result of trial and error. don't listen to me whatever i say more then likely it'll be wrong!!! my apologies Sheila!!! regards, Eric