06-01-2014, 05:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-01-2014, 05:54 AM by Brightcolours.)
Canon lenses for your Nikon? :o
I never use "protective filters". Cleaning front elements is super easy, with a soft brush, a soft micro fiber lens cloth and a tiny bit of lena cleaning fluid. Oily smudges are gone within a wipe. You have to clean filters as much or even more often anyway.
I do not like the idea of protecting anything with thin slabs of easily breakable glass.. I have dropped my 70-200mm often enough that if I were using "protective filters" the lens would have been scratched from shards of broken "protective filter" glass. None of my lenses have any scratches....
Use protective filters when the situation is especially hazardous (motorcross? heavy sea spray? Windy day at a fine sand beach?), and then use CHEAP ones which you won't mind getting damaged.
Like others said, slim filters are not needed for most lenses.
The scratches caused by them in the above article will impact resale value pretty heavily.
I never use "protective filters". Cleaning front elements is super easy, with a soft brush, a soft micro fiber lens cloth and a tiny bit of lena cleaning fluid. Oily smudges are gone within a wipe. You have to clean filters as much or even more often anyway.
I do not like the idea of protecting anything with thin slabs of easily breakable glass.. I have dropped my 70-200mm often enough that if I were using "protective filters" the lens would have been scratched from shards of broken "protective filter" glass. None of my lenses have any scratches....
Use protective filters when the situation is especially hazardous (motorcross? heavy sea spray? Windy day at a fine sand beach?), and then use CHEAP ones which you won't mind getting damaged.
Like others said, slim filters are not needed for most lenses.
The scratches caused by them in the above article will impact resale value pretty heavily.