Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I generally keep a 1A filter on most of my lenses all or close to all of the time, just for protection. I'm finding that I'm using filters less and less as I get better in photoshop. Music is my first 'art' and to me it's like tracking and mixing. As I've gotten better at mixing and the technology has made things easier, I tend to track a lot drier than I used to, even when I know I'm going to do X and Y when I start to mix. I still use filtersfor contrast in b+w images, but even that a little less often and also usually not such strong filters. Serious b+w shooters. Are you all using contrast filters as aggressively as you were in 1998, say? TCB On Thu 22/01/09 10:17 PM , Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta nmsbaeta@gmail.com sent: > Hello! > > I never used filters because I never felt the need and always avoided > putting another piece of glass in front of a lens. But now I have two > reasons to get some filters, so I think... > > * Next summer I'll be going on vacation to the North of Africa. It > will be a one week walk and dust will be a certainty. > > * Whenever my wife takes a camera, the lens will end up with > fingerprints :-( Not always, but too many times. > > I believe these are good reasons to buy some filters, especially when > the lens costs (much) more than the camera. > > So what I want are protective filters. But after some "net > research"I really don't know what to buy... All that I know is that a good > filter will be, most probably, expensive (but certainly less expensive > than a lens :-) Where I live, in Portugal, I have easy access to > Hoya, Rodenstock and Sigma filters, but I can use online shops to > purchase other brands. > > Feel free to comment on my reasons to buy the filters (and let me know > if there is a barbed wire adapter as this will solve my second reason > :-) Finally, please give me some advice on what to look for on a > filter, which brand(s) to avoid and which brand(s) make good filters. > > TIA > > -- > Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta > ille nihil dubitat quem nulla scientia dictat > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > >