Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B+W and cheap filters
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:32:58 -0800

You can get multicoated B+W filters. But not multicoated Leica filters.

>German "Fotomagazin" had a UV-filter test 2 Years ago. They concluded that
>Leica and B+W were the best to use. Hoyas were so so. The cheap filters were
>crap  and really degraded the lenses.
>Reading this article made me throw away all the cheap filters I had.
>Unfortunately I threw away the magazine, as I always do after a Year.
>/Hans
>>
>>the biggest hype yet is the advertising of BW filters. has anyone ever seen
>>a comparison of the cheapest vivitar filter and a leica or BW? ask yourself
>>why. besides there are much more important things for we lugheads to think
>>about...like orange dots and the baseplate protective stickers. Now these
>>things are really important.
>>
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