I never use a filter, other than a polarizer or an ND when needed for photographic purposes. I do use hoods all the time and haven't damaged a front element in recent years. (Back in the seventies when I shot a lot of drag racing and cleaned the rubber off the front element with my shirt, I pretty much destroyed the front element of my Vivitar 200:-). Paul On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:12 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm in the 'C' camp, I use the best filters, aways a skylight or UV on all > my lenses. I can't tell the difference with or without the filter. Its cheap > insurance IMO. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bipin Gupta" <[email protected]> > Subject: To Filter or not to Filter your Lens > > >> Yes this is an oft repeated old stuff. But here is a version bottled >> anew. Since my retirement I have been travelling a lot. Last weekend >> we were in San Francisco. We love the wharf area and pier 39 plus the >> rides on the historic cable cars. A very windy and chilly day. Lots >> and lots of birds flying around for scraps of food. And eat means they >> have to drop too. So bits of bird droppings broken up and propelled by >> the wind do hit your camera and the lens. I was not spared. >> Back at the hotel, I tried cleaning the filter with a blower brush and >> the Japanese high fiber lens cloth (no China stuff). Faint spots still >> remained on the Hoya 77mm Pro 1 Filter. Back home I tried a lens >> cleaner. No luck. I could still see very faint spotting on the filter. >> My daughter was quick to point out that bird droppings have strong >> chemicals that can stain a lens coating, perhaps damage it. >> I would now love to hear from our photographer friends, a) for whom a >> filter is absolutely sacrilege, b) the Buddha's middle path takers who >> say they take the filter off for important events, and c) those who >> swear by the filter. >> Bipin. >> camp: San Mateo, CA and not from the far away enchanting land. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
