Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:51 AM 6/26/2008, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >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. I fear that I am a hopeless digital klutz, and I haven't a clue as to what you are saying about the M8. Otherwise, it really is, as I previously noted, "horses for courses". Use filters as you need. I agree with Ted that there are times when a UV filter as a protective screen is a wholesome idea. I have bounce-tested a lot of camera gear over the years -- the ability of an M3 to accommodate fall of four feet (1,987km or so) onto concrete is really sobering. And modern plastic-mount lenses with plastic hoods do better in such drop-tests than do metal-mount lenses with metal hoods. I know: I have done them both. The metal-mount lenses end up with shattered glass while the plastic-mount lenses survive rather well. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!