Bob, remember I wrote, "however slight" and "bothersome unknown." Said concerns are not controllable. OTOH, I find filters often justified to achieve a photo effect sought. Jack
----- Original Message ----- From: Bob W <[email protected]> To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 2, 2013 5:35 AM Subject: RE: Filters? > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Davis > > First, there is the resolution reduction, however slight, caused by requiring the light to pass through two additional > glass surfaces. > For me, the filter glass clarity is a bothersome unknown. > > Jack > Burn him! Here's how to make the unknown known, or at least less bothersome. Take some pictures of the same things in the same conditions with and without filters. Compare and contrast. Decide. B > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Eric Weir <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, November 2, 2013 4:00 AM > Subject: Filters? > > > Midway in my walk back in September I replaced the lens cap > on the A 28/2.8 with a uv filter. Recently I thought I > ordered 49 and 67 mm uv filters [Tiffen] for use as lens > protectors on two other lenses. When the order arrived I had > two 67 mm flyers, one uv, one uv haze. > > My first thought was to return the haze, but reading up a > little I thought maybe I’d keep it. In a discussion of uv vs. > uv haze on photo.net, however, I encountered a diversity of > opinions about filter vs. no filter and uv vs. haze, and > strongly negative opinions about Tiffen. > > I’d be interested in this group’s thoughts. > -- 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.
