There's been a lot of debate on the Internet forums recently about the use of skylight filters on your cameras lens.
There's two schools of thought, they go like this.
One. Fitting a bit of cheap glass in front of my expensive lens is just lowering the quality of it.
Two. Fitting a bit of thin optical glass close to the front element, doesn't significantly affect the quality but offers protection to the lens.
Now I'm firmly in the second camp, on two separate occasions I have saved a lens from serious damage by having a filter on the front. The other advantage is now it's OK to clean the filter with your shirt corner, or your pocket hanky. Yes I know we shouldn't really use those, but come on be honest, how many of us have done it some time or other?? I thought so!
So fit a filter and next time you get a bit of rain, dust, mud, dead badger etc on your filter just clean it off with no worries about scratching your expensive lens. Wayne
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