Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc see my response to Mark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, 26 June, 2008 8:59 AM 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 > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >