[Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispute!

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)]

I hear you Marc. I feel like I have been here long enough now to have been
in a least one previous incarnation of this topic.
I don't understand the polarised positions on filters. Use them or not as
you want. Nothing helpful served by expressing my personal position there.
Everyone will form their own opinion and why not? I have had two saves from
mechanical damage by lens HOODS. As to the new UV/IR filters, I consider
those essential on the M8 for my photography. That I can illustrate
unequivocally. That's really a more complex issue however.

Cheers
Geoff middle ground free love forgiveness and tolerance guy
But ALL of those pork ribs are bad for me
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-----Original Message-----
Subject: [Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispte!

At 02:48 AM 6/26/2008, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
 >Hey there, chill dude ;-) Akhil asked about UV filters and prefers to use
 >them. No-one will drop into your place and force you to put some on your
 >lenses ;-)

Geoff

The argument about whether or not to use filters 
as lens caps goes back to the days when the List 
was run by "the Gang of Four" fifteen years or so 
back.   For some reason, there are few who 
inhabit the middle ground here, and folks seem to 
defend their positions viscerally.  It is rather 
like discussing the virtues of  sweet pork 
barbecue versus those of vinegar-based pork 
barbecue here on the USian East Coast.

The dispute heats up every year or two.  Akhil's 
comments ARE interesting and I, too, am a bit 
taken back.  In fifteen years of argument, this 
is the first time someone has come forth to claim 
that the use of a filter-as-lens cap actually protected a lens.

I'm with Mark on this one.

Marc


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