People tend to get into religious wars about this sort of thing. I'm a firm believer in filtering my lenses, but I think I'm the only person on the list who's ever dropped a camera on its front and had the UV filter shatter and the lens remain ok. :) I've never noticed a difference in quality, but I have started ponying up for the more expensive B+W Multicoated filters rather than the cheap Tiffens I started out with. That can add $50-$100 to the cost of each lens, but better that than scratching the lens or worse, IMHO.
Amita On 4/21/07, Maris V. Lidaka Sr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I generally leave my UV filter on my lens. My (aging) eyes don't see any > difference in image quality with or without the filter, but there are those > who disagree. > > Maris > > eric wrote: > > I learn something new every day on this list, it seems. I'm probably > > still a youngin' compared to most of you (rolling over to 27 in about > > a month), and just started getting "serious" about photography late > > last year when I picked up a *ist-DL. Wonderful camera, only > > complaint of sorts is the lack of a hard protective cover over the > > LCD, such as found on the Nikon D70. > > > > Anyways, in talking to my photography friends, most of which are my > > age or younger, I was always told to never leave the house without > > something capping the front element. Skylight and UV filters are > > handy universal protectors. Seemed like perfectly sound advice to > > me, considering I can't leave the bedroom without getting a spot on a > > white shirt. I can make it to the front door on a gray shirt. I > > will have somehow put a scratch in the screen of a new PDA within > > minutes of taking it out of the box. > > > > So yeah, not having some sort of protection on the front of something > > that has triple digits worth of investment in it does make me a bit > > uncomfortable. It hadn't occured to me that these filters might be > > degrading image quality, although it does make perfect sense now that > > I think about it. But considering that I'm still working on the kit > > lens, and $300 is a HECK of a lot of money for me to drop on another > > lens, am I really going to see that much of a difference between > > filter and no filter? I picked up a 3 pack of Quantaray filters > > (skylight 1A, polarizer, and UV). I tend to leave the skylight one > > attached to the lens. I've tried both with and without, and can't > > really see any real difference in quality, but then I've also been > > focusing more on learning the camera, than getting Ansel Adams level > > quality. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
