DSLR FILTERS? Step up and Step down rings?

Ok so i'm buying a Nikon D60 DSLR off my friend and I want to get some filters. However I just want to get a set of them and i've found a kit of 28 filters for £55.00 however they're 55mm thread instead of the 52mm Nikon size. 55mm the size of the Sony filters… Could I use a 52mm-55mm step up ring to use these?

Sure. Step up rings are fine, they cause no problems.

Save yourself £55.00, the only filters you need for digital are a circular Polarised, graduated and (Neutral Density) to hold back bright skies and and to give slower shutter speeds. The square filters and a holder is best for and filters such as the Cokin system, or Lee if you have lots of money.

Most of the filters in these kits are for colour correction of film, altering tungsten light to daylight for instance, which are not needed on a Digital SLR as they can calibrate white balance. The Red, Orange and Green filters are for B&W film to increase contrast, all you will get with these on a digital camera is a colour cast.

Step up rings are fine, step down can cause vignetting.

You only need about 4 or 5 filters…

UV (which should be the size of each of your lenses)
and
and Grad
Polarising

other than that, you can do things with editing software…

and premier-ink.co.uk sell Kood stepping rings… I use them…

Er, buy some 52mm thread filters would be the sensible suggestion, wouldnt it? (my Olympus uses 52mm)

stepping up, or down can cause vignette, and you can bet your going to cross thread it sooner or later…
AND… You get better results learning a bit of photoshop…

you can't really use a tobacco sunset too often! I have a good selection, but, rarely use them, my favourites are the graduated filters, which i use to darken skies, without losing the ground in the shadows. I use the cokin system… And to be honest, they are gimicky, as opposed to practical.