Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/26

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Subject: [Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispte!
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Thu Jun 26 06:02:29 2008
References: <4AB109A52C71420B8131F60C014A7651@xyw> <C488B05D.13402%mark@rabinergroup.com> <000001c8d758$acc7d390$6b01a8c0@dadquad>

At 02:48 AM 6/26/2008, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
 >Hey there, chill dude ;-) Akhil asked about UV filters and prefers to use
 >them. No-one will drop into your place and force you to put some on your
 >lenses ;-)

Geoff

The argument about whether or not to use filters 
as lens caps goes back to the days when the List 
was run by "the Gang of Four" fifteen years or so 
back.   For some reason, there are few who 
inhabit the middle ground here, and folks seem to 
defend their positions viscerally.  It is rather 
like discussing the virtues of  sweet pork 
barbecue versus those of vinegar-based pork 
barbecue here on the USian East Coast.

The dispute heats up every year or two.  Akhil's 
comments ARE interesting and I, too, am a bit 
taken back.  In fifteen years of argument, this 
is the first time someone has come forth to claim 
that the use of a filter-as-lens cap actually protected a lens.

I'm with Mark on this one.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



Replies: Reply from alal at duke.poly.edu (A. Lal) ([Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispte!)
Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispute!)
Reply from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispte!)
In reply to: Message from alal at duke.poly.edu (A. Lal) ([Leica] 21mm M Biogon question)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] 21mm M Biogon question)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] 21mm M Biogon question)