Forum: Photography


Subject: Colour Filters in the camera vs Post work Filters?

darkcr0ss opened this issue on Jun 20, 2005 ยท 7 posts


darkcr0ss posted Mon, 20 June 2005 at 8:29 PM

Hi, I've been playing around with my digital camera for a while now, getting to know all the functions etc. My camera (as do many of us) has different colour features; for instance Neutral, Vivid, Sepia, Black & White etc. I was wondering what is the difference of setting these colours up in the camera as opposite to putting a colour filter or say changing the colour to greyscale in post (Photoshop or the likes). Is there any difference the charged couple device detects and puts the pixel into place of the certain colour, or, because its all digital the process of putting colours and filter washes is minimal to the change in quality of the image? & also, while on this topic, playing around in premiere I've come across some filters: magic bullet and spherex that you can apply to digal images and it simulates the look you would get from film, is there anything like this avaible for photoshop(free or cheap or on trial) I could try out? Thanks a bunch, -Nick AKA darkcr0ss