Hello
Anyone added an adapter tube to their compact digital so that they can add a UV filter?
I've just ordered one with UV and Polarising filters for my Minolta Z3.
Will probably mean that I've got to buy yet another camera bag.
I've got a horrible feeling that the adapter tube will come into shot on wide angle.
If anyone says that they're interested I can post my impressions of using the gear.
Cheers
snedger

Thanks, I would be very interested to know how well it works. Particularly the polarising filter.

Also the manufacturer of this equipment.

The manufacturer of the adapter is unknown, but is good enough quality i.e. it screws on to the camera well and filters screw on to it well. And it is a lot cheaper than the Minolta brand adapter. I bet you can guess where I bought the kit from?

Am getting a bit frustrated about testing it - went out walking for the last 2 weekends but was too rainy to even take the camera out, let alone to have any use for the polarizer. All I have done is taken a couple of indoor shots just to prove to myself that the electronics weren't somwhow confounded by the extra layer of glass i.e. the UV filter. Filter make is Kenko - is that a good make?
Will try and test it as soon as the weather improves.

OK, great. Look forward to hearing the results.

Actually I have no idea where you bought it.
I live in Indonesia and I buy locally not on the internet, that's why a brand name would be usefull, so I can chase around for it.

Kenko rings a bell, I'm not certain but I think they are quite good. The filters I have are Hoya which are very good, but a little expensive.

Thanks snedger

Hello
I got the gear off of THE online auction website.
Only taken the camera out once to try the filter - for taking a picture of a seaside sunset.
It was an evening when the sky was mostly blue, but there were a few dense snow clouds around. The humidity was very low and so there was just about no mist to effect the polarizer. Do snow clouds "vacuum" up moisture?
But, I did notice that in slightly failing light, that it was very difficult to see a change in contrast when rotating the polarizer. More than likely due to the low resolution of my viewfinder.
I've got to go out on a full on sunny, but slightly misty day at the seaside.

There was a very strange thing that I noticed for the first time - the electronics on my camera coped with the exposure extremely differently between wide angle and medium zoom. Wide angle was over exposed, but medium zoom really accentuated the reds to make some of the most delicious photos that I have ever taken! No post processing required at all (Phothoshop auto levels turned the crimson sunset into greens and blues).
Cheers
snedger

Yea, not really ideal conditions to test a polarising filer. The red sunset sounds interesting, maybe the high amount of red light at that time of evening meant the polariser worked strongly on that light frequencey.

Best time for the polarizer is with the sun high and bright when the sky is so bright it is really pale blue and then it intensifies the colours of the photo and also gives anice blue sky. You will really see a difference in those conditions especially if you wathch the sky in the view finder, it goes from pale to deep blue as you turn it.

How about posting some of the sunset photos in the gallery, I'd love to see them.

Thanks for the update snedger.

At last I've tried out the polarizer - at slightly misty seaside conditions.
As I suspected the resolution of the viewfinder is not good enough for me to be sure when the polarizer changes the contrast - unless it is just that my eyesite is getting worse. The contrast did seem to ping bluer every now and then, but that might have just been fluctuating light getting in/being blocked at the imperfect viewfinder.
Lens is protected by the UV filter, so not a total waste of money.
Took some good photos though of a good day out, so am not unhappy

Great, look forward to seeing them snedger.