Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And dish washing takes the little rainbows right off the surface of them. Mark William Rabiner > From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:58:14 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Advice on filters > > Heliopan or B+W are the two brands normally recognized as the best. > You can get them in any number of online shops, for example Foto Mayr > in Germany. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Jan 23, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information