>Hello, Joseph and Everyone,
>This reminds me of two questions I'd appreciate some informed oppinions on.
>I grew up being told that keeping a UV or skylight filter on a lens, for
>protection of the front element, is a bad idea. The argument went
something
>like this. "Why spend hundreds of dollars on precision glass and then put
a
>cheap piece of $*&# in front of it? Beside, it adds another glass-to-air
>interface." What do you all think about the question?
It adds flare. I've checked it. Use multicoated filters. Hoya HMC is the
best deal for the money. B+W filters are very nice though. I'm not sure if
their regular filters are single coated or uncoated. Avoid Tiffen, in my
opinion.
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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