Hi, Friday, August 20, 2004, 6:24:07 PM, paul wrote:
> I like to use a UV filter on each lens to protect the front glass. I'm now > shopping for an 86mm filter, and it's hard to find a top-end (Contax, Pentax, > Heliopan, B+W, or Hoya SHMC), multicoated UV filter in that size, in used > condition (and thus at a used price). > I can get a used Contax clear "protection filter" (model 86 P) at a good price > ($31). It has no UV protection, but according to the Adorama listing (New), it > is multicoated. I am taking this on faith, because I can't find it confirmed > anywhere else, including Kyocera's site. In 86mm, a new Contax Protection > filter costs abotu $8 less the UV filter. > This will be for my Vivitar 24-48/3.8, for which I just placed an order. > If I get the clear filter instead of UV, what will I be missing? Will my > outdoor shots be any less sharp? > Can anyone confirm that the Contax Protection filters are multicoated? > Paul I have a lot of Contax filters, but not this one, so I can't help on that particular question. There is a Kyocera shop here - I assume this is the one you've looked at: http://kyocera.smartermall.com/searchresults.asp?dept_id=14 On this list of filters they specifically state 'multicoated' for nearly all of them, but not for the 86mm clear filter. So I would assume from that that it is not multicoated, and I'd pay the small extra amount for the UV. At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, if you buy a clear filter you will lose UV reduction, so if you photograph those blue remembered hills, they will indeed be blue. Teamwork (http://www.teamworkphoto.com/heliopan.html) is a good source for Heliopan filters. They're well priced by UK standards, but the exchange rate is probably against you. -- Cheers, Bob Into my heart an air that kills >From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? This is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain. The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. ---A E Housman
