Rubs and scratches are more likely but I changed my mind a lot when someone in
my studio knocked my Canon 5D off a stool a few years ago. It landed LCD first
on to a tripod dolly. It was wearing a Giottos glass protector rather than a
thin film protector. After the perpetrator recovered consciousness and I'd
changed my underpants, I peeled the shattered remains of the thin glass off the
screen to discover - no damage at all underneath. Consequently, it was wearing
a fresh screen within 2 days and every expensive camera I buy gets that present
quite soon in life.
Now, those screen are a LOT closer to the LCD screen than a filter is to a lens
front element. But I'm betting that a glass fracture absorbs a lot of energy. A
point impact that could penetrate a filter and mark a front element or drive
filter glass fragments into it would possibly destroy that front element
completely if no filter was in place. And a marked/scratched front element
isn't that serious - it'll give perfectly acceptable images until you can get
it fixed.
Andrew Fildes
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On 16/03/2014, at 3:04 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Instead, I bought a good B+W filter to protect the lens against scratches if
> rubbing against something--a much more likely event than an impact that
> shatters the filter.
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