Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/24
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On 24 Sep 97, Jim Brick wrote:
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>All modern Leica lenses have UV filtering
> built-in and do not require yet another UV filter. If you want to use
> one to protect your lens from something (?) that's OK as most of the
> time it won't degrade your image very much.
Does putting a UV over a post 1965 Leica lens already having the UV
coating equal a skylight filter over a pre 1965 lens? 8^)
Silly, I know, but I *don't* know. I suspect that the coating is
different for skylight and UV, and that it just happens that the
skylight coating also reduces UV.
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Roger Beamon
Naturalist & Photographer
Leica Historical Society Of America
mailto:beamon@primenet.com
Thought for the day:
Intuition (n): an uncanny sixth sense which tells people
that they are right, whether they are or not.