Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Over the years I've bashed a few filters and mashed a few metal shades but have never damaged a lens. Sometimes getting the shot is more imporant than protecting the equipment, so filters and shades can help. Once I got rained on by something that came out of the stack of a ship; a drop landed on a filter and made a permanent blotch. Other drops quickly _ate holes_ in my old Domke bag. Whatever it was, I'm glad it didn't land on me! I'm always amazed at those who insist a skylight filter or whatever will seriously degrade image quality and then have no qualms about using a colored filter. Only once have I come across serious image quality degradation caused by a supposedly decent-quality filter; a Hoya filter badly smeared the corners of negs shot with a Pentax 45 lens on the 67. I replaced it with a Heliopan filter, and could see no difference in negs shot with the Heliopan filter or no filter. John Hicks jbh@magicnet.net