09-06-2010, 03:11 PM
Sorry, I lied. You are correct. UV filters are unnecessary. One shouldnt use them. Any protective value is a myth. There is a huge conspiracy of manufacturers tricking people into buying useless equipment.I admit I am a dumb fool first falling for bad marketing and then making up a myth about the usefullness of filters.
Sometimes the internt is a sad place. Two people just cant report their differnt experiences. There must always be one ever so knowledgable person who thinks no one can possible have a legitmate opinion differnt from his own. I hope, brightcolors, my statement above will save your day.
@vieux loup: There are arguments for and against filters, as you have read. You need to make up your own mind wether tu use them or not. My expereinces is that I would definately recommend using them.
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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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Sometimes the internt is a sad place. Two people just cant report their differnt experiences. There must always be one ever so knowledgable person who thinks no one can possible have a legitmate opinion differnt from his own. I hope, brightcolors, my statement above will save your day.
@vieux loup: There are arguments for and against filters, as you have read. You need to make up your own mind wether tu use them or not. My expereinces is that I would definately recommend using them.
[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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