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Subject: Re: [OM] filters
From: "Dirk and Carla Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 17:49:08 +0000
>Hello, Joseph and Everyone,
>This reminds me of two questions I'd appreciate some informed oppinions on.
>I grew up being told that keeping a UV or skylight filter on a lens, for
>protection of the front element, is a bad idea.  The argument went
something
>like this.  "Why spend hundreds of dollars on precision glass and then put
a
>cheap piece of $*&# in front of it?  Beside, it adds another glass-to-air
>interface."  What do you all think about the question?

It adds flare. I've checked it. Use multicoated filters. Hoya HMC is the
best deal for the money. B+W filters are very nice though. I'm not sure if
their regular filters are single coated or uncoated. Avoid Tiffen, in my
opinion. 


Be seeing you.

Dirk Wright

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