Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But just maybe, without the filter being there, the front element would have shattered, and one of it's shards would have turned inwards and gouged the inner element just beneath the front element! Then how would you have felt? ;-) Dan C. > >Well, let me tell you my sob story from the other side. > >I dropped my 180 Elmarit, and the filter shattered. One shard turned itself >inward, and gouged the front element. Though that one mark on the front >didn't seem to cause much problem, except when the sun was in the picture >(more than normal "ghosts") I never got over it as long as I owned that >lens. Regretted using filters when they weren't needed. >-- > >Eric Welch