Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From what I can see, Tina the IR filters which work with the M8 represent a complex sophisticated filtering which cost a lot of money and are worth it; like you say. But the UV filter thing is a marketing scam. And there seems to be a profile of people who are susceptible to it. The same people who've got you sitting on their sticky shiny plastic covered see through slip covered sofa's in the summer so their expensive upholstery does not get worn. Your thighs become crazy glued to them. But hey their upholstery cost a lot of money! Would the so called well healed serious amateurs care that pro photogs who have forgotten more about photography then they'll ever totally ever know do and don't do? Heck no photography practice is not the issue. Its the buying and selling of gear. And these guys go through much more gear than the pros do in plenty of cases. We should just listen to THEM. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:21:41 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: IR/UV filters > > I don't use UV filters ever - except on the M8. That's a totally different > case. Those are UV/IR filters made especially to take care of the magenta > blacks that sometimes occur with the M8. The only time I use them with the > M8 is if I might be photographing somebody wearing black polyester. Black > wool is fine. Black silk is fine. Black polyester is magenta without the > special UV/IR filters. It affects a few other colors, too, in special > circumstances. You don't need it if you're going to convert your photos to > B&W. > > Tina > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information