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THIS MONTH: FILTERS

Everything you need to know about choosing optical filters – in a nutshell

DIGITAL cameras have largely done away with the need for carrying a stack of optical filters around. In the heyday of film photography, you might have required a set of colour correction filters to warm up or cool down the light, depending on what type of film you had loaded in the camera. But a digital camera’s white balance control lets you change the camera’s colour response from shot to shot. Special-effects filters – such as diffusers to create a soft-focus look, or star filters to add a starburst effect to light sources – have largely taken a back seat thanks to photo-editors such as Photoshop.

But there are still some optical