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

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispute!
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Thu Jun 26 09:55:10 2008
References: <4AB109A52C71420B8131F60C014A7651@xyw> <C488B05D.13402%mark@rabinergroup.com> <000001c8d758$acc7d390$6b01a8c0@dadquad> <200806261300.m5QD0ZLY025689@server1.waverley.reid.org> <000a01c8d793$c8e69c60$6b01a8c0@dadquad>

At 09:51 AM 6/26/2008, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
 >I hear you Marc. I feel like I have been here long enough now to have been
 >in a least one previous incarnation of this topic.
 >I don't understand the polarised positions on filters. Use them or not as
 >you want. Nothing helpful served by expressing my personal position there.
 >Everyone will form their own opinion and why not? I have had two saves from
 >mechanical damage by lens HOODS. As to the new UV/IR filters, I consider
 >those essential on the M8 for my photography. That I can illustrate
 >unequivocally. That's really a more complex issue however.

I fear that I am a hopeless digital klutz, and I 
haven't a clue as to what you are saying about the M8.

Otherwise, it really is, as I previously noted, 
"horses for courses".  Use filters as you 
need.  I agree with Ted that there are times when 
a UV filter as a protective screen is a wholesome idea.

I have bounce-tested a lot of camera gear over 
the years -- the ability of an M3 to 
accommodate  fall of four feet (1,987km or so) 
onto concrete is really sobering.  And modern 
plastic-mount lenses with plastic hoods do better 
in such drop-tests than do metal-mount lenses 
with metal hoods.  I know:  I have done them 
both.  The metal-mount lenses end up with 
shattered glass while the plastic-mount lenses survive rather well.

Marc


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



Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Only about the UV/IR filters on the M8)
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)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispte!)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispute!)