Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's a reason why pretty much no professional photographers including Ted use UV filters or maybe the own one and use it once a decade if they can find where they put it (I have some somewhere).... A tiny rock hits the filter and the filter shatters into a million ultra sharp pieces your lens underneath is worse not better off. How often does a thing like this happen? What if a rock like that hit your forehead or eye? Why stand there in the first place? --------------------nod Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 14:09:15 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: IR/UV filters > > >>> >>> The UV filter world is BS. > > Two persons I know personally had problems with a lens recently. > > One - Ted knows him well - got a chip in the front element of an > expensive piece of glass due to a stone projected while shooting a race. > He didn't have a filter. > > The second - Lluis met him last year - has a cat that caused the > camera bag to fall on a tile floor. > The filter he had on was smashed in the accident but preserved the > front glass. > > Which do you like better? > > Philippe > NO ARCHIVE > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information