Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't use UV filters ever - except on the M8. That's a totally different case. Those are UV/IR filters made especially to take care of the magenta blacks that sometimes occur with the M8. The only time I use them with the M8 is if I might be photographing somebody wearing black polyester. Black wool is fine. Black silk is fine. Black polyester is magenta without the special UV/IR filters. It affects a few other colors, too, in special circumstances. You don't need it if you're going to convert your photos to B&W. Tina On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > There's a reason why pretty much no professional photographers including > Ted > use UV filters or maybe the own one and use it once a decade if they can > find where they put it (I have some somewhere).... > A tiny rock hits the filter and the filter shatters into a million ultra > sharp pieces your lens underneath is worse not better off. > How often does a thing like this happen? What if a rock like that hit your > forehead or eye? Why stand there in the first place? > > --------------------nod > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > > > From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 14:09:15 +0200 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: IR/UV filters > > > > > >>> > >>> The UV filter world is BS. > > > > Two persons I know personally had problems with a lens recently. > > > > One - Ted knows him well - got a chip in the front element of an > > expensive piece of glass due to a stone projected while shooting a race. > > He didn't have a filter. > > > > The second - Lluis met him last year - has a cat that caused the > > camera bag to fall on a tile floor. > > The filter he had on was smashed in the accident but preserved the > > front glass. > > > > Which do you like better? > > > > Philippe > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com