I have always said the best lens protection you can do is a lens hood.
Wayne , how wrong you are. Back when I was younger and foolisher, i totally
trashed the front element of a 400 lens on the front of a Hasselblad, shooting
a welder in action. A hood did nothing.NOTHING!!! a filter would have saved the
price of anew front element.
I have continued top use a UV filter when necessary, although my retirement has
cut short my photographing of welders, I continue to use one in things like
airshows where strong winds blow dust and sand, on boats where there is a lot
of spray and so forth.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Shumaker" <om3ti@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 9:12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] UV and Skylight Filters
At 5/23/2019 11:37 AM, Philippe wrote:
>And also fiddling with manual WB btw ….
>
>A filter proteecting a lens ? Really?
>I once dropped a camera, - well someone did one of mine in Barcelona, do not
>ask questions … - the shards of the broken filter screwed the front eelement
>of the lens, in part.
>Had I not screwed that f…¦ filter on, the whole gear would have been left
>pristine.
>
>Now, to everyone their deserts ;-)
Totally agree. I don't use screen protector on my phone either. I like the nice
pristine look. Going on two years with galaxy S7 and screen looks good as new.
I have broken two phones. Screen protector did nothing, it just makes the
screen ugly.
I have always said the best lens protection you can do is a lens hood. Most are
plastic and absorb a shock. Lens "protection" filter just muddies the optics.
More often than not you bang the camera on the corner of the lens anyway - lens
hood protects, filter does not. Not sure where the UV protection filter
religion began. I have banged my camera around, never damaged a lens but do
have scratched lens hoods. I dropped an OM with lens + metal hood once. Hood
was bent but that was it. Filters are for flitering.
Protection filter averse - WayneS
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