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I've just moved up to a Nikon D40. I'm wondering if I should add a
skylight filter to protect the lens. I've heard that they slightly degrade the image, and I've also heard that they don't. I shoot half-and-half family pix and macro shots of watches, coins, etc. I can't see the filter affecting a shot of my grandchildren in the playground, but I wonder about the macro aspect. It's a small investment, but I'm just wondering what the thinking is on filters. Filters in general, for that matter. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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tony cooper wrote:
I've just moved up to a Nikon D40. I'm wondering if I should add a skylight filter to protect the lens. A skylight filter is not a good idea because it alters the colors ever to slightly. A simple UV filter will be better. I've heard that they slightly degrade the image, and I've also heard that they don't. They do, just because it is yet another pane of glass with all the associated drawbacks like dirt, distortion, reflections, back reflections, chromatics, etc, etc. However you are very unlikely to notice any of this in your daily real-world photography. IMO the benefits of protecting the lens far outweight the minute degradation of the image quality unless you are really shooting for the top 1% of the professional world. jue |
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"Jürgen Exner" wrote in message ... tony cooper wrote: I've just moved up to a Nikon D40. I'm wondering if I should add a skylight filter to protect the lens. A skylight filter is not a good idea because it alters the colors ever to slightly. A simple UV filter will be better. I've heard that they slightly degrade the image, and I've also heard that they don't. They do, just because it is yet another pane of glass with all the associated drawbacks like dirt, distortion, reflections, back reflections, chromatics, etc, etc. However you are very unlikely to notice any of this in your daily real-world photography. IMO the benefits of protecting the lens far outweight the minute degradation of the image quality unless you are really shooting for the top 1% of the professional world. jue I just keep a UV filter on all my lenses and remove them when taking photos. Simple. Paul |
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The protection the filter affords the lens more than offsets any image
degradation. You can always remove the filter. It is much more expensive to replace a lens. This is a no brainer. |
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In article , flambe
wrote: The protection the filter affords the lens more than offsets any image degradation. You can always remove the filter. It is much more expensive to replace a lens. This is a no brainer. It's even less expensive not to drop it or smack it into something. In 41 years of photography with 16+ of that professionally, I have yet to drop a piece of equipment or smack a camera/lens into something. |
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"tony cooper" wrote in message ... I've just moved up to a Nikon D40. I'm wondering if I should add a skylight filter to protect the lens. I've heard that they slightly degrade the image, and I've also heard that they don't. I shoot half-and-half family pix and macro shots of watches, coins, etc. I can't see the filter affecting a shot of my grandchildren in the playground, but I wonder about the macro aspect. It's a small investment, but I'm just wondering what the thinking is on filters. Filters in general, for that matter. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida Get a good quality filter with antireflection coating (Hoya or B&W) and you will not be able to see any visible sign of image degradation. You can prove it in seconds by taking images with & without filter and put an end to the "image degradation" nonsense. |
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Frank Arthur schrieb:
"tony cooper" wrote in message ... I've just moved up to a Nikon D40. I'm wondering if I should add a skylight filter to protect the lens. I've heard that they slightly degrade the image, and I've also heard that they don't. Get a good quality filter with antireflection coating (Hoya or B&W) and you will not be able to see any visible sign of image degradation. You can prove it in seconds by taking images with & without filter and put an end to the "image degradation" nonsense. Yes, the nonsens of a filter in front of a 9000$-Lens. Don't think always within our own limits. You can see if there's a filter or not. Andreas -- Fotos unter http://www.gugau-foto.de/ Special unter http://www.hoellenmusik.de/ Schottland unter http://www.whisky-guide.de/ |
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"Andreas Gugau" wrote in message ... You can see if there's a filter or not. Andreas -- Fotos unter http://www.gugau-foto.de/ Special unter http://www.hoellenmusik.de/ Schottland unter http://www.whisky-guide.de/ Complete and utter rubbish. You can *sometines* (in special circumstances) see if there's a filter or not, but even then it's mostly guesswork. I challenge you to a double blind test. I don't need to take part. Do it yourself, then come back here and retract that silly statement. -- Jeff R. |
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"Mr. Strat" wrote: In article , flambe wrote: The protection the filter affords the lens more than offsets any image degradation. You can always remove the filter. It is much more expensive to replace a lens. This is a no brainer. It's even less expensive not to drop it or smack it into something. In 41 years of photography with 16+ of that professionally, I have yet to drop a piece of equipment or smack a camera/lens into something. You're very lucky. In the past year there was a question on this group from someone who had gotten snot or barf or some such material directly on a lens. There was a lot of discussion about how to clean the lens. The best answer was to have a protective layer (like a neutral filter) in front of the lens that one could just remove, wash under running water, dry and put back on the camera. You do not have to be clumsy to scratch a lens. Your kid can do it. -- With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Steven Weinberg |
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