When lighting conditions make it difficult to capture scenes as you envision them, camera lens filters can often enhance your photographic process and experience. Circular filters are useful for enhancing colours, lengthening shutter speeds, reducing reflections, and adding greater impact to your photos. This makes post-production work much easier, limiting corrective editing tasks. 

The first major benefit of using any filter is that it protects the front element of your lens from dust, smudges, scratches and impacts. Depending on which type of lens you use, your images and shooting experience will benefit in other ways as well.

Circular Polarisers help cut down glare and reflection. Circular Neutral density filters extend the shutter time by a given number of stops, or allows you to use wider apertures in bright lighting situations. Circular UV and protection filters are common for adding a protective element to the front of modern day lenses. And special effects filters such as the circular natural night filter or circular black mist filters assist in being more creative with your image styles!