Canon EOS 7D creative filters

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  1. Martin George

    Martin George New Member

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    Does the 7D support creative filters from any of the menus?
    Red, Green and Polarization filtering is what I want
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    Welcome to the forum Martin, you can buy red , green and polerizer filters for the front of the lens.
     
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    Thanks
    I knew that but doesn't the 7D have the creative filter menu option?
     
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    I am not sure so I shall look up the manual to it, the polerizer does a special thing when it comes down to reducing glare and haze in the sky, this may not happen in the camera but I shall have a look. get back to you shortly.
     
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    Martin, I looked up the manual for the 7D and could not find any information on the quirey you asked. I looked up on my Camera a 60D sort of similar and the only filters the 60D has is grainy b/w, soft focus , toy camera effect and miniture effect.
    The only way I can you can change these is my first suggestion of lens filters or in post such as photoshop or similar which is one you pay for, or gimp which is free to use, there is a how to use videos on youtube on Photoshop and Gimp, which is quite excellent. I am afraid you will have to use a polerizer filter as the camera and post programs do not replicate the glare reducion and haze removal the way a polerizing filter does. I went into my 60D's menu and to use the creative filters I had to bring up my images and apply the filter over top of them and it is saved as a JPEG. If your 7D is a bit different let me Know, all the best with it, Craig.
     
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    Thanks for your work. Looks like the 7D doesn't support creative filters. I thought it did.
    Just bought the camera used and learning what it can do. The 250 page user manual is a little overwhelming. Upgraded to the latest firmware because the previous original owner never did.
    Have some colored, polarization and macro filters on order.
     
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    My suggestion is go to a OP shop or a camera store for some second hand ones and see what they have it should cut down costs. You can get some good bargins as well as garage sales. My I suggsest you buy for your largest lens filter size and get some reducing rings for the rest, beats doubling up on filters.
    You can also use older EOS lens such as those dating back to the film era and with a adapter old film manual lenses but there will not be any auto-focus, this includes Nikon canon and any M42 mount lenses and a host of others, any thing else let us know.
     
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    I came across something today and I think it's what I've been looking for. It's described on page 67 of the EOS 7D instruction manual. The heading is Monochrome Adjustment. It makes reference to filter effects for monochrome images using yellow, orange, red or green filtering. This may be what I need instead of purchasing filters that go in front of the lens. No polarization effect so I'll need to get one for the front of the lens and be able to rotate it for optimal effect.
    Anybody want to back me up on this?
    Thanks
     
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    This should work well if you wish for a JPEG image, there is a drawback if you wish to have a RAW file for further editing in photoshop or other software, then the filters are the go, there are heaps around as this was the staple for black and white fims, you will still need a circular Polerizer filter for reducing glear and a neutral density filter for slower shutter speeds especially in landscape images. Check out OP shops camera shops garage sales etc. You may also pick up some other secondhand gear cheap aswell.
    While you are having a look around, dip you toes into film photography waters, pick up a cheap EOS mount film camera, most of your lens will possiblely work on it. A 7D is impressive but a film camera is much cooler. You will have more chances of picking up girls with it.
     
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    Why are you recommending glass color filters for RAW images?

    On another note. I spent several years in the 70s and 80s as a commercial industrial photographer and also did portraits and weddings. Black and white and color using 35 mm, 2 1/4 x 2 1/4, 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 and 4x5. Those days are long gone and I'm not going back:
     
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    I have a love for photography for that era, my cameras range from 34various makes of 35mm ,5 various makes of 120, which includes a very neat Mamiya 645 pro TL. A toyoview 4x5 and a calimat C1 8x10, photography is meant to be fun, and a patially built darkroom. that means I have a heap of unprocessed film. I still use the glass filters a lot, with your expience ignore the advice, I will say I based on my camera where the creative filter is called grainny black and white, if you want pin sharp black and white you need to do this in post, eg. photoshop or similar. Your camera may be a bit different. As for your note on your pro experience. A pro photographer is always a , bonus to the forum, your advice to new people to the forum would be helpfull, my experience is in the area of teachng a community house photography class for seniors.
     
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    So much for the zone system although I've read where it can apply to digital photography. I'm not going there!

    Any suggestions on a good windows photo app that supports RAW? I don't want to use Photoshop for a couple of reasons. It's to expensive and I probably don't need all the whistles and bells. I've been working with an app from Canons site and it may be all I need but I'm open to suggestions.
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    Do you have the disc that come with your camera as on it there is a progam that allows the editing of raw files, I think it was called Digital Photo Proffessional
    A free photo editing is available similar to photoshop called Gimp as I mention previously, it is very good and on par with photoshop.
    Instruction on how to use it will be found on youtube.
    If you wish to create panaramas a free program called Image composite editor.
    Finally there is Farstone Image Viewer, I am not sure about raw files but excellent on JPEGs, not too complex but well worth the look.
    I recomennd this to my students who wish to tidy up their images, all are over 55 years old and have no wish for too much mucking around to do it, all the best with it.
    One last thing I do is I save my files as both RAW and JPEG allowing me the use of both. It takes up more room on the memory card but I carry spare cards with me, dump the files on the computer as soon as I have finnised and then format the cards.
     
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    If your looking for free, i probably would use canons DPP software for raw, and then fine tune the exported output with something like Gimp if needed, gimp has a decent amount of power, i just find the interface cumbersome.

    That said, while I would historically agree with adobe being spendy to keep up with new retail copies, especially if buying the Creative suite plus Lightroom.... now they have gone full cloud. And the the Photography plan gives you both PS and LR and 20gigs of storage for $10 a month and that will keep you indefinitely up to date with the recent version so your new camera is always supported. But hey I pretty much live in Lightroom. And this is about the price of hitting a your favorite drive-though or fancy coffee.

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    Thanks for your recommendations.
    I just started using Canons DDP and am going through the training videos. It's definitely a learning curve! I'll look a Gimp too.
     

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