What does a sunlight filter do to your photo?

Question

what would you prefer a polarizing filter or sunlight filter?

Answer 1

Assuming you mean skylight filter, the primary purpose of a skylight filter is to protect the front element of your camera lens. UV haze filters and Skylight filters have been used for this purpose. The skylight filter has a slight pinkish cast to it so will warm your photos slightly.

As to the preference between a polarizer and skylight? You should really have both. The skylight filter is protection, the polarizing filter will help deepen a blue sky, and reduce reflections if shooting reflective objects like windows and shiny surfaces.

Answer 2

I take it you mean a skylight 1A filter ?If that is what you are talking about it will cut some but not muck blue. Its primary purpose is to have a 20 filter protect a lens that costs in the hundreds of dollars so look at it as lens protector with a touch of warmth added

A polarizer will decrease glare and reflections and make the sky bluer. Its a must have for outdoor photography but not left on just taken out and used when you need it. For digital make sure you get a circular polarizer. A linear polarizer can interfere with the autofocus and metering on many DSLRs

Answer 3

sunlight filters decrease effects of one color wavelength or another while taking pictures. Misnamed, these are actual color filters used in sunlight for special effects and artistic manipulations of pictures.

Polarizing filters reduce glare.  they have a rotatable out lens to obtain polarization of light depending on in the field circumstances, time of day, and relative location of the sun to the camera and line of sight.

either filter is not better than the other one.  both types have their own applications, advantages, and drawbacks.

Another one, not mentioned in your question are plain glass lenses.  on the older SLRs, and newer zoom lenses on digital cameras, these lenses s***w into the lens as a point protection accessory.  if you happen to drop or bump the actual lens front, the plain lens filter will break more likely than the lens, saving you lens replacement costs.  It's a form of bump insurance to protect your equipment

Answer 4

There is no sunlight filter .. perhaps you are thinking of the "skylight filter"  a skylight filter is used primarily when shooting transparency film.  It cuts the typical blue cast when using some transparency material and it used in the same way a UV filter is .. to protect the front element of your lenses.

The polarizing filter is used to reduce reflections caused by glass and water ... as well as darkening the sky when shooting 90 degrees to the path of the sun.

Answer 5

Sunlight does nothing noticeable. This might be an idea if you want to protect your lens.  

Answer 6

ummmmm filters the sunlight