09-06-2010, 11:53 AM
[quote name='jenbenn' timestamp='1283767854' post='2519']
Whatever. I photograph on location and dont babysit my equipment. I am a photographer not a camera collector. Therefore I find it necessary to protect my lenss. No need to argue here.
UV filters have saved at least two of my lenses. IF you bump your front lens without filer your front element will most certainly get scratched. If you bump it with UV filter, there may be a slight chance that pieces of glass will scratch it, but to me that seems quite a remote chance and my expereince disproves your wild assumptions here.
Also why would one fidle around on and off screwing filters all the time, when UV filters dont degrade optical quality for all pricatical purposes?( maybe you can measure some degradation, but I certainly havent experienced anything in prcatice.)
BTW if you travel it is very easy for a little piece of sand to be stuck on your cleaning cloth, resulting in accidental scratches.
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Like I said before, I am not particularly careful with my lenses. And yes, I am a photographer, not an over concerned parent. So I care about the image degrading properties of "protective filters" much more than quite irrational fears of front element scratches.
It is about the photo, not about a fear of imaginary scratches.
Explain how you have bumped front elements? In particular against something that could scratch it?
UV filters do degrade, just not in EVERY photo.
It is again just a faulty proposition, that when you travel a small corn of sand somehow gets itself into a micro fiber lens cloth and makes scratches. That is just in your imagination. You do not put lens cloths just anywhere, they have a very smooth surface and have a colour, one WOULD notice something had happened to it. Just again fueling to the myth, but camera shops and filter manufacturers will love to sell you expensive UV filters for all your lenses.
It is fine for you to keep using UV filters standard on all your lenses. But it is also fine to point out the protection value myth.
Whatever. I photograph on location and dont babysit my equipment. I am a photographer not a camera collector. Therefore I find it necessary to protect my lenss. No need to argue here.
UV filters have saved at least two of my lenses. IF you bump your front lens without filer your front element will most certainly get scratched. If you bump it with UV filter, there may be a slight chance that pieces of glass will scratch it, but to me that seems quite a remote chance and my expereince disproves your wild assumptions here.
Also why would one fidle around on and off screwing filters all the time, when UV filters dont degrade optical quality for all pricatical purposes?( maybe you can measure some degradation, but I certainly havent experienced anything in prcatice.)
BTW if you travel it is very easy for a little piece of sand to be stuck on your cleaning cloth, resulting in accidental scratches.
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Like I said before, I am not particularly careful with my lenses. And yes, I am a photographer, not an over concerned parent. So I care about the image degrading properties of "protective filters" much more than quite irrational fears of front element scratches.
It is about the photo, not about a fear of imaginary scratches.
Explain how you have bumped front elements? In particular against something that could scratch it?
UV filters do degrade, just not in EVERY photo.
It is again just a faulty proposition, that when you travel a small corn of sand somehow gets itself into a micro fiber lens cloth and makes scratches. That is just in your imagination. You do not put lens cloths just anywhere, they have a very smooth surface and have a colour, one WOULD notice something had happened to it. Just again fueling to the myth, but camera shops and filter manufacturers will love to sell you expensive UV filters for all your lenses.
It is fine for you to keep using UV filters standard on all your lenses. But it is also fine to point out the protection value myth.