UV Filters - How useful are they REALLY? With actual testing!!

[Buckster]

This subject comes up often enough around here to make this article / video / photos of some testing about UV filters to be quite interesting and relevant to our pursuits.

Enjoy at this link:

Photo Mythbusters: How Much Do UV Filters Actually Protect Your Lenses?

 

[KenC]

Interesting - he must have had fun with that. I never thought of them as protection from impact, but rather dust, grime, grit, etc. I finally decided fairly recently that I'm very careful with equipment and never had any grime or grit on my filters, and the dust is easy to blow off, so I stopped using them.

 

[astroNikon]

I thought this thread was going to be filled of pictures of UV filters used as coasters.

 

[pixmedic]

 

[pixmedic]