09-06-2010, 05:25 PM
[quote name='Brightcolours' timestamp='1283774005' post='2525']
Like I said before, I am not particularly careful with my lenses. And yes, I am a photographer, not an over concerned parent. So I care about the image degrading properties of "protective filters" much more than quite irrational fears of front element scratches.
It is about the photo, not about a fear of imaginary scratches.
Explain how you have bumped front elements? In particular against something that could scratch it?
UV filters do degrade, just not in EVERY photo.
It is again just a faulty proposition, that when you travel a small corn of sand somehow gets itself into a micro fiber lens cloth and makes scratches. That is just in your imagination. You do not put lens cloths just anywhere, they have a very smooth surface and have a colour, one WOULD notice something had happened to it. Just again fueling to the myth, but camera shops and filter manufacturers will love to sell you expensive UV filters for all your lenses.
It is fine for you to keep using UV filters standard on all your lenses. But it is also fine to point out the protection value myth.
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It really is whether you want that extra little bit of insurance or not. It doesn't happen often, but it does, and a filter does protect, and a sand grain can scratch if it goes unnoticed.
Kind regards, Wim
Like I said before, I am not particularly careful with my lenses. And yes, I am a photographer, not an over concerned parent. So I care about the image degrading properties of "protective filters" much more than quite irrational fears of front element scratches.
It is about the photo, not about a fear of imaginary scratches.
Explain how you have bumped front elements? In particular against something that could scratch it?
UV filters do degrade, just not in EVERY photo.
It is again just a faulty proposition, that when you travel a small corn of sand somehow gets itself into a micro fiber lens cloth and makes scratches. That is just in your imagination. You do not put lens cloths just anywhere, they have a very smooth surface and have a colour, one WOULD notice something had happened to it. Just again fueling to the myth, but camera shops and filter manufacturers will love to sell you expensive UV filters for all your lenses.
It is fine for you to keep using UV filters standard on all your lenses. But it is also fine to point out the protection value myth.
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It really is whether you want that extra little bit of insurance or not. It doesn't happen often, but it does, and a filter does protect, and a sand grain can scratch if it goes unnoticed.
Kind regards, Wim
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....