Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My UV filters are stuck in my camera-closet. I can't seem to get them out of there. There's always some nice COLOR filter to put on instead which really do something positive to the image if I feel like putting on a filter. But I have no patience for mealy-mouthed filters of no color! Again I'll say in 39 years of photography most of it professional and UV filterless I've never scratched a front element. A real element on a 150 Sonnar for my Hasselblad, but no front element. The lens shades of course protect the lens easily enough. Especily on a normal or telephoto lens. If this person smashed a filter thread on a zoom telephoto lens it means they were not using a shade. Now there's a lens I'd not dream of not using a shade with. All that glass. Just dieing to flare. ESPECIALLY if i had a UV filter on it. A UV filter and no shade easily the worst combination there is. And i don't care if it's super double multi coated and cost as much as a Tokina lens. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA Photography Website: http://www.rabinergroup.com Email: mark@rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html