Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Best way to protect the lens from damage is to schedule it under your homeowner's policy. It is all risk and has no deductible. Covers all accidental damage to the lens. Ted Grant wrote: > Here is a question regarding filter use. How would you folks handle this situation? > > You just purchased the Super-Elmar 15 mm f 3.5 lens for a cracking > $5000.US or higher. The front element stands out like a bulging bug eye > with funny looking cut away (more cut away) than covers by appearance > lens shade. How would you attach a filter, of any kind, to protect the > front element? And not have it interfere with the viewing coverage.? > > Seeing we folks always have such "wild and woolly" discussions regarding > filter use for protection I thought this might give it a slightly > different twist. Hopefully this will create imaginative answers. And > please guys and gals, lets not get into semantics, nobody learns from that! > ted