I use filters! When I did the construction shoot a while back, I was glad I was a filter-girl. One of those little trucks would come zooming by and soon enough I and my cameras were covered head to toe in dirt-dust, and, of course, tiny rock particles would fly about as well. One dinged my B + W polarizing filter real nice, but thankfully the pesky little rock particle didn't get the front element.
This thread reminds me of the time I was at Bob Sullivan's house years ago after just joining the PDML. He began a long lecture on how PDMLers do not use filters and that if I wanted to be a true PDMLer I should give up the habit real fast. I said I would, but I had my fingers croxxed, and have been hiding my untruth all these good long years--until now, of course, but despite being junior to most, I am senior to some, so I'm feeling cocky and bold and devil may care and decided to come clean! I say use filters, but buy good ones. That reminds me: I need to replace my semi-cheap UV filters. I think I'll head over to the B + W store. To me, shooting without a filter is like riding a motorcycle without a helmut. You won't find filter-girl--aka helmut-girl--without either. Cheers, Filter-girl from Chicago On Sep 17, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
