UV/Haze filter

[Roger Eichhorn]

I dropped my 70 to 300 mm DO lens and broke the UV/Haze filter.  
Amazon seems to have a gazillion of them for sale.  Anyone have a  
recommendation for a replacement?  Or does is matter who makes it?  
The original was a Canon.  Thanks for any advice.  The lens itself is  
fine and the screw mount on it seems to be undamaged.

Roger

[John Gulliver]

Roger you are lucky, the filter has done it's job. Make sure you buy a  
multi-coated filter, B&W are good.
John

On 2 Nov 2009, at 03:30, Roger Eichhorn wrote:

> I dropped my 70 to 300 mm DO lens and broke the UV/Haze filter.  
> Amazon seems to have a gazillion of them for sale.  Anyone have a  
> recommendation for a replacement?  Or does is matter who makes it?  
> The original was a Canon.  Thanks for any advice.  The lens itself  
> is fine and the screw mount on it seems to be undamaged.
>
> Roger
>

[karl shah-jenner]

 John Gulliver :

Roger you are lucky, the filter has done it's job. Make sure you buy a  
multi-coated filter, B&W are good.

Seconded

B&W (Schnieder) are very fine filters

[Bob W8IMO]

That's another reason I keep a UV/Haze filter on my lenses. 

B+W  are good filters.

Bob

Roger Eichhorn wrote:

I dropped my 70 to 300 mm DO lens and broke the UV/Haze filter.  Amazon seems to have a gazillion of them for sale.  Anyone have a recommendation for a replacement?  Or does is matter who makes it?  The original was a Canon.  Thanks for any advice.  The lens itself is fine and the screw mount on it seems to be undamaged.

Roger

[Roger Eichhorn]

Thanks to those who offered advice.  I've ordered the B+W from Amazon  
(who sold it for Adorama).  In 1997, I dropped an earlier version, the  
Canon 75-300 on the metal deck of a boat on Prince William Sound with  
no effect -- nothing broke and it functioned perfectly afterwards.  
This was a sixteen inch drop to a wooden floor.  Go figure!

Roger

On 1 Nov 2009, at 9:50 PM, John Gulliver wrote:

> Roger you are lucky, the filter has done it's job. Make sure you buy  
> a multi-coated filter, B&W are good.
> John
>
> On 2 Nov 2009, at 03:30, Roger Eichhorn wrote:
>
>> I dropped my 70 to 300 mm DO lens and broke the UV/Haze filter.  
>> Amazon seems to have a gazillion of them for sale.  Anyone have a  
>> recommendation for a replacement?  Or does is matter who makes it?  
>> The original was a Canon.  Thanks for any advice.  The lens itself  
>> is fine and the screw mount on it seems to be undamaged.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>

[Gregory Stempel]

I'm the exact opposite. I never carry a UV on any lenses, just extra glass
my sharpness is required to pass through. I keep my lenses hoods on at all
times instead. I have yet to lose a lenses from blowing out the glass. I
have also never lost any threads from using metal hoods, dented but
functional is my norm. I have lost plenty of those plastic hoods.

My friends are amazed at how badly I treat my equipment. Anyone out there
put plastic baggies on the feet of your tripod before use? I have a friend
who does.

Take care out there,
Gregory
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[David Dyer-Bennet]

Gregory wrote:
> I'm the exact opposite. I never carry a UV on any lenses, just extra
> glass my sharpness is required to pass through. I keep my lenses hoods
> on at all times instead. I have yet to lose a lenses from blowing out
> the glass. I have also never lost any threads from using metal hoods,
> dented but functional is my norm. I have lost plenty of those plastic
> hoods.


I've done both at various times with various lenses (though, looking
back, I see a pattern that my more expensive lenses are the ones I DON'T
put a filter on).  Haven't lost a lens or hood or even the threads to a
fall in any case.


>
> My friends are amazed at how badly I treat my equipment. Anyone out
> there put plastic baggies on the feet of your tripod before use? I
> have a friend who does.

Not a baggy guy in that context, no.


I seem to handle my cameras somewhat gently, given how long they last
and how few dents they have, but I don't feel it interferes with my
getting pictures.


Hmmm; what are the craziest things people have done with their cameras?  
Only the first one of mine impresses even ME very much; I'm not a huge
risk-taker.


I set my D700 on its back on the ground, pointed up at the muzzle of a
mortar less than two feet away, knowing that in addition to the
gunpowder and the projectile there were two baggies of gasoline in the
barrel to "enhance" the muzzle blast; I had to clean a thin layer of
gasoline off the front of the lens after that one.  The picture was
spectacular.


I've lowered cameras off a bridge by the tripod, to take shots from
close to water level.  As I remember it, the pictures weren't in the end
very interesting.

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[Kostas Papakotas-2]

I am sort of in the middle of you....I have the UV filter constantly on..Else it may not be there when I need it...(paied the price with some "lost" frames)

and the hood has saved my lbig zoom ens being drop from I meter on the street....but I do not take chances with mis-behaviour...

baggies on the tripod feet? come on! new rubber taps are available at the dollar store!

Anyway, time to ask something too....is it true that a hood enhaces the image contrast? (maybe do not letting it degrade by the side light?)

enjoy, kostas

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Θέμα: Re: UV/Haze filter
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Ημερομηνία: Δευτέρα, 9 Νοέμβριος 2009, 1:04

Gregory wrote:
> I'm the exact opposite. I never carry a UV on any lenses, just extra glass my sharpness is required to pass through. I keep my lenses hoods on at all times instead. I have yet to lose a lenses from blowing out the glass. I have also never lost any threads from using metal hoods, dented but functional is my norm. I have lost plenty of those plastic hoods.


I've done both at various times with various lenses (though, looking back, I see a pattern that my more expensive lenses are the ones I DON'T put a filter on).  Haven't lost a lens or hood or even the threads to a fall in any case.


>
> My friends are amazed at how badly I treat my equipment. Anyone out there put plastic baggies on the feet of your tripod before use? I have a friend who does.

Not a baggy guy in that context, no.


I seem to handle my cameras somewhat gently, given how long they last and how few dents they have, but I don't feel it interferes with my getting pictures.


Hmmm; what are the craziest things people have done with their cameras?  Only the first one of mine impresses even ME very much; I'm not a huge risk-taker.


I set my D700 on its back on the ground, pointed up at the muzzle of a mortar less than two feet away, knowing that in addition to the gunpowder and the projectile there were two baggies of gasoline in the barrel to "enhance" the muzzle blast; I had to clean a thin layer of gasoline off the front of the lens after that one.  The picture was spectacular.


I've lowered cameras off a bridge by the tripod, to take shots from close to water level.  As I remember it, the pictures weren't in the end very interesting.

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[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Mon, November 9, 2009 03:24, Kostas Papakotas wrote:

>
> Anyway, time to ask something too....is it true that a hood enhaces the
> image contrast? (maybe do not letting it degrade by the side light?)


Yes, it does.

At least, some of them do, some of the time; in cases where there would
have been a problem, but the hood manages to cut enough extraneous light
to make a difference.  You know how you sometimes shade the lens with your
hand to block really bad visible flares, or flag lights on the set to keep
them from shining directly into the lens?  Same thing.

For a wide-range zoom it's not going to do anything much except at the
wide end, of course.

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