Quality UV Lens Filter

[tecboy]

I'm thinking to get a better uv lens filter. I have Rocket Fish, and it is okay. The glass is little lose and seems like it will fall off from the ring. I heard expensive filter is much more clearer. Will it make a big different in a photograph?

 

[Trever1t]

You are going to hear 1000 responses telling you to remove and put that UV filter in a drawer. I don't use a UV filter, nor do many but if you are going to stick a piece of glass in front of your lens it better should be the best one you can afford.

 

[TATTRAT]

SHOOT NAKED, BRO!

Oh, but no, wait, maybe you shouldn't. . .

 

[Derrel]

I'm thinking to get a better uv lens filter. I have Rocket Fish, and it is okay. The glass is little lose and seems like it will fall off from the ring. I heard expensive filter is much more clearer. Will it make a big in a photograph?

I'd go for the Gefilte Fish brand instead...much better flavor, and it make a big in all photographs. IUt would go great too with the night vision and GPS that the T3i in your avatar has!!!

No, but seriously...I'd agree with TATRAT above: Shoot naked!!! NO filter, baby!

 

[tecboy]

Oh yeah, I read from another thread using a led hood to protect the front element lens with out a lens filter. The lens hood gives me slight vignetting on my photographs.

 

[Derrel]

If the hood vignettes, it's not the right hood for that lens, or that lens/camera combo.

On APS-C cameras, a lens hood that will NOT vignette with say, a 70-200 zoom CAN cause vignetting with a full-frame body behind the 70-200...believe me, I know...I have made the mistake a few times.

Most full-frame-capable lenses are fitted/designed with a lens hood that is optimal for full-frame; on teles and tele-zooms, a substantially narrower-diameter, or a longer hood than the "stock" or "suggested" hood can often be used, with no vignetting. And as I said at the start of this reply, if the hood causes vignetting--it's not the right hood!!!

 

[Garbz]

If you're going to put UV filters on your lenses then put some good quality ones on. B+W FPro series is nice. You don't want to put crap glass in front of your expensive gear. And while Trever1t thinks you'll get 1000 responses telling you to take it of, I'll bet you'll get just as many saying you should keep it on, like from me.

 

[tecboy]

I meant will an expensive filter will make a big different in photographs?

 

[Trever1t]

cheap filters are not quality ground glass and are optically imperfect. You will probably not notice it in your images but I would

 

[Tee]

I meant will an expensive filter will make a big different in photographs?

No. And refer to Derrel's post about lens hood vignetting. Take a hammer to your current UV filter and erase from your memory anything about lens protection.

You're welcome.

 

[tecboy]

I just wonder, what if I'm in a public place under hot sweaty day, someone opens a can of ice cold soda. The soda bursts and sprinkles on my bare naked lens. Not even a lens hood can guards against it. Should I panic that it might be the end of the world? Is it possible the soda can stains the lens? How durable the bare naked lens? Is it like not wearing a seat belt while driving a car?

 

[David444]

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[480sparky43 42]

I just wonder, what if I'm in a public place under hot sweaty day, someone opens a can of ice cold soda. The soda bursts and sprinkles on my bare naked lens..................

If someone ruins my lens, they can buy me another one. But unless you really soak the lens, I doubt it will be a lost cause.... a spray of cola is just messy, not the end of the world.

 

[tecboy]

Okay, so how do I find out which lens hood is right for my lens?

 

[David444]

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