lens filter questions

hello,

im sure these have been asked to death.. but i havent bought a lens in
a long while, so if you will entertain it again...

usually i use a polarizer or nothing at all. sometimes i use a UV for
protection, but i dislike the reversed & mirrored hotspotting (ie, if
you have a stage light in the upper-right of the frame, you can see a
ghost of it on the lower-left of the image)..ive found that a hi-
quality filters minimizes this glare ghost, but does not eliminate it.

what are folks using these days? UV? protective? "digital
protective" (adorama)..?


thanks folks
sm

On 3 Apr 2007 13:28:17 -0700, wrote:

hello,

im sure these have been asked to death.. but i havent bought a lens in
a long while, so if you will entertain it again...

usually i use a polarizer or nothing at all. sometimes i use a UV for
protection, but i dislike the reversed & mirrored hotspotting (ie, if
you have a stage light in the upper-right of the frame, you can see a
ghost of it on the lower-left of the image)..ive found that a hi-
quality filters minimizes this glare ghost, but does not eliminate it.

what are folks using these days? UV? protective? "digital
protective" (adorama)..?

I use a lens hood. Keeps stray light and stray fingers out. I don't
own a UV filter for any of my Canon lenses but am planning to buy one
for severe situations like salt spray, curious 2-year olds, etc.

KS

wrote:
hello,

im sure these have been asked to death.. but i havent bought a lens in
a long while, so if you will entertain it again...

usually i use a polarizer or nothing at all. sometimes i use a UV for
protection, but i dislike the reversed & mirrored hotspotting (ie, if
you have a stage light in the upper-right of the frame, you can see a
ghost of it on the lower-left of the image)..ive found that a hi-
quality filters minimizes this glare ghost, but does not eliminate it.

what are folks using these days? UV? protective? "digital
protective" (adorama)..?


thanks folks
sm

I have polarizing filters and lens hoods. For those lenses that fit one
of my old UV filters I still have those available, but I have not bothered
to use one since I when digital other than to prove to myself the sensor was
UV blind.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit

thanks, folks.

sm