Everyone should do themselves a favor a throw away all their old, crappy 1A or
UV filters and replace them with brass-cell, B+W, MRC multi-coated filters.
That way you won't have to ever ask yourself if the filter was a significant
contributor to picture quality.
With the vast amount of cash spent on cameras and lenses, it never ceases to
amaze me at the photographers who try to be cheapskates and save a few bucks on
filters and outdated film. It's like putting cheap gas in a Ferarri.
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>Subject: Re: [OM] Filter Quality
> From: Fernando Gonzalez Gentile <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:32:50 -0300
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>on 9/09/2003 11:41, Danrich at danrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> the cheapest filter in UV
>> category?
>Not quite a test but a surprise. I had bought a $5 Sakar UV filter and
>pictured a big station TV antenna at night on Provia 100F with the 21/3.5.
>(Mike would know which picture I am talking about, I had sent him a previous
>attempt on Kodak ProImage100)
>I kept it on during 30 sec exposure and got some funny effect: a very narrow
>straight line (a ray) of red light escaping from a red light in the antenna,
>which couldn't be produced either by flare or by the atmospheric conditions.
>I shot the scene four times varying some parameters and tripod position just
>some centimeters and it only happened once, of course in the better composed
>attempt. I sort of liked it, but now I'm unscrewing this filter on any
>difficult lighting conditions.
>
>Fernando.
>
>
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