This is 'retinal macular degeneration', and I don't believe it is related
to UV light at all, so a UV filter wouldn't help...
Chip
> A very common form of blindness in elderly people results from the scar
> tissue formed at the fovea (the small area of critical focus at
> the back of
> the eye). A recent preliminary study found that several servings of
> spinach a week can slow down the rate of blindness and may even
> reverse the
> blindness some. Susan can tell us best about this kind of blindness I
> would think. Isn't it caused by ultraviolet light? Would a UV filter on
> our Zuiko lenses (OM content) help prevent this?
>
> Gregg
>
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