Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!mako!jans From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: don't use filters to protect lens Message-ID: <285@mako.UUCP> Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 12:24:02 EDT Article-I.D.: mako.285 Posted: Fri Aug 31 12:24:02 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Sep-84 14:59:43 EDT References: <3466@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 39 [good greif, charlie brown! golden ears comes to rec.photo!] > But another comment was that a UV filter was being used to protect the front > element of the lens. I'm not sure that that is a good idea... I think > you're better off avoiding the extra two surfaces to get dirty. DIRT is not the issue, MONEY is! > Can you justify spending a couple of hundred bucks on a telephoto lens and > then putting a $6 filter in front of it? Now you're talkin'! Can you justify spending a couple of hundred bucks on a telephoto lens and then spending another $125 to have the front element replaced? > Unless you are a real klutz and put your thumb on the lens every time you > pick up the camera... ...or unless you like to take your camera rock climbing, skiing, bicycling, to the beach, in short, if you like to use the durn thing instead of pampering it... need I go on? I've shot professional assignments, taught photo seminars, won contests, and have many good action shots under my belt. I don't use a case or a lens cap. I've got a respectable bit of brass showing through and I'm sure the resale value is nil. (Leica owners, especially Leica owners, shudder in your shoes!) I've fallen on my camera, buried it in snow, banged it against rocks. I've two 1A's while they have been on the lens, and I have a stack of dead ones that I use only with vaseline now, for softening effects. Perhaps some of my shots are not as rock-crystal clear because of the filter, but I HAVE THE SHOTS! And I find myself taking more and better shots when I'm not constantly worring about what I may be doing to the lens. Maybee this article belongs in net.flame. Then again, maybee DHagerman's article belongs in net.golden-eyes! -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::