Probably many have said already, things are much simpler:

- yellow filter = brighter skin tones;
- red filter = very dark skies;
- orange filter = the best of both worlds!

That is how you use them.

Just gotta grab an orange filter, that's my favorite 🙂

I had an orange filter living on the Q2M while I had it. I also liked the green filter for anything without people. Red was a bit much for most of what I like, nearly blackening the sky in certain circumstances. Never tried a yellow, as I heard they were really subtle. Great test to demonstrate it all!

Great video. I shoot a lot of landscapes. I use the red filter most of the time. Love the darken sky effect.

Orange.  Get yourself an orange filter.  -2 stops exposure, and you get something between the red and yellow filters.

When I first got into B&W 30 yrs ago I experimented with different filters but settled on yellow as the most pleasing and all around balanced so it’s pretty much standard on my Pentax MX SLR. Orange is my next favourite.

The other thing a filter does with an SLR or DSLR like the Pentax K-3 Monocrom where your viewfinder view is coloured by the filter, that yellow or orange tinge helps a little in visualising in monotone.

I was always interested in what the red, green, and yellow filters would do on a digital monochrome camera. Thank you for demonstrating them. I agree with your conclusion that the yellow filter would be the most used.

Great vid. Good on you for leaping into sharing without knowing the results. A yellow filter lives on my Q2M — subtle but makes every image pop.

Good stuff! 👍

I use the yellow all the time on my M11 monochrome, I also like to use the orange filter a lot. But i prefer green on skin tones. Great video 🙂

Also using M 246 monochrome camera and film M cameras with B&W film - my favorite remains an orange filter since it is a good middle ground between yellow and red filters. I never used green and blue filters.

Orange for me too but not all oranges are the same. I had to replace my tiffen orange with one from B+W (40) to get the right amount of contrast

Ha! Told you that the filters were a must! Great comparison vid!

Always enjoy your videos! Thank you.

enjoyed that Goughie i use green a lot and yellow second .......Tony

For my photography, yellow stays on the camera most of the time, unless there is a person in the image, then an orange filter goes on, I love what orange filter does with skintones.

Yellow is nice for blue eyes.

Hi Firstly I didn't realise you lived so close to me I' just the other side of Whitchurch.  On my M11M (before that my Q2M) from my film days found the Orange filter to best overall & yellow filter.  I always found Red too powerful & only woke on skies.  I use Orange for general street & Landscape & yellow for country type stuff such as down Lepe or country shows.  Happy to meet up sometime & you can try my Orange filters I have 55mm & 46mm (loaned my 43mm to a Q2M user.
Pete

An R,G, B filter will pass the light with its own colour and either darkens or just blocks others. With the exception of Blue all other popular filters also block the blue portion of the light spectrum to some degree. Red 25 just about blocks all blue but a yellow #15 known as Minus Blue blocks almost all the blue. Shadows are usually illuminated by scattered light and this has a large portion of blue, so your shadows will tend to go black, while anything with yellow, orange or red will tend to get lighter. With B&W Panchromatic film, We used  Yellow/Green ( XO) filter to correct for tonal values of a caucasian complexion. Not sure how a full spectrum monochrome sensor will behave as I don't own a conventional Monochrome sensor.  My advice to you is to go easy at first until you can gauge what the filters do. Another thing you can do is to use R720 IR filter and do proper IR photography. Good Luck. PS: Looking at the colour of your filter, it seems to be a #8 sort of medium/light equivalent to a Hoya K2. I would advice you going up to a  #12. May I also suggest that you search for a Heliopan Sh-PMC. I think TeamWork sells them. They are pricy but they have superb multicoatings and glass. Tiffen glass is excellent but their filters are not coated. You loose about 8% transmission and  risk getting secondary reflections in difficult lighting conditions with a non-cpated filter. Just get a #12 an dthen you can go for the stronger 25 Red if need be.

Thanks a bunch for the comparison!

Funnily enough, I just stumbled across a guy who uses a BLUE  filter for skin tones because it turns them rather dark and gives people with caucasian skin a rather unreal appearance that is pretty striking. If one likes that or not is a matter of taste, but it sure is an easy way to make a portrait stand out.