Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:29 PM 3/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hello... > >I promised myself I wasn't going to get into this filter discussion, but >I was looking at the September/October 1997 issue of American Photo the >other night and noticed a picture of Henri Cartier-Bresson holding an M >with a 90 mm lens with what certainly appears to be a UV filter on it. >The point being... when I look at his images, I don't generally think >about the quality of the camera or lens or weather or not he used a >filter. When I look at his work, I am most impressed by the >composition... the subject matter... the event captured. > >If you can make great pictures with a filter on, do it. If you can't, >don't. > >My 2 cents. > >Dave > Lenses older than 1965 have softer coating than later lenses AND have no UV inhibitor in the lens itself. Using a UV filter, in certain situations, is, therefore, justified. Simple logic.