I知 new to this thread. My Leica 100mm/2.8 APO macro arrives tomorrow. Question, do you recommend using a filter on your lenses? I purchased a Leitz UV E60 filter specifically for the lens but wondering it it should be used. Responses appreciated.
Anitajo24 wrote:
I知 new to this thread. My Leica 100mm/2.8 APO macro arrives tomorrow. Question, do you recommend using a filter on your lenses? I purchased a Leitz UV E60 filter specifically for the lens but wondering it it should be used. Responses appreciated.
This is one of those topics that will have opposing subjective opinions about as polarised as US politics.
Do some tests with and without the filter and if it makes a difference then do whatever makes you comfortable.
I mainly use Hoya HD UV filters on all my Leica lenses (mainly 2.8/28E55, 1.4/35, 1.4/80 but not the Apo-Summicron-R 2/180 which has a very deep hood so I'm comfortable without a filter) and have no complaints. I mainly use filters because I often work in crowded or sometimes dusty environments so lenses get finger prints and stuff on them. I prefer to clean a filter rather than the lens surface itself. I would not use a filter if shooting at night, with lots of bright light sources in the frame, where even dust on the lens surface can increase lens flare. I suppose that like everything, it depends.
Anitajo24 wrote:
I知 new to this thread. My Leica 100mm/2.8 APO macro arrives tomorrow. Question, do you recommend using a filter on your lenses? I purchased a Leitz UV E60 filter specifically for the lens but wondering it it should be used. Responses appreciated.
I've used filters for years (Hoya Pro or equivalent) to add another layer of protection.
I'm not sure they have been very useful but they did not hurt.
But the front of the 100mm/2.8 Apo Macro is not exposed so when I had one, I did not use a filter on this one.
Anitajo24 wrote:
I知 new to this thread. My Leica 100mm/2.8 APO macro arrives tomorrow. Question, do you recommend using a filter on your lenses? I purchased a Leitz UV E60 filter specifically for the lens but wondering it it should be used. Responses appreciated.
Anitajo24 wrote:
I知 new to this thread. My Leica 100mm/2.8 APO macro arrives tomorrow. Question, do you recommend using a filter on your lenses? I purchased a Leitz UV E60 filter specifically for the lens but wondering it it should be used. Responses appreciated.
ALWAYS USE A FILTER ON YOUR EXPENSIVE LENSES!!!
Not necessarily for UV filtering, but you can get a "CLEAR" filter with no filtering effects, but you want that filter to protect your lens in case you hit it up against something and you break that front glass optics. Okay, someone will always argue with me or you about it, but how much did you spend on that expensive German lens?
And what about scratches? What about scratching it when you're cleaning the front optic? You could have a piece of sand in your cleaning-cloth that you didn't know about.
Okay, my sister actually banged the front end of her Canon lens on a door while she was walking through a line of people and she crashed the front optic of her....FILTER! If that had been her unprotected lens, it would have been the end of her lens, or a very expensive repair, but it was the filter, not the front optic! And she had the lens cap on the lens too, which basically bounced off the lens and onto the floor, offering ZERO protection! Main point here is glass everywhere! But none of it was the lens, it was the glass from the filter, easily replaceable.
Get a Hoya CLEAR filter if not a UV filter, and use it every minute of every day you use that lens! It's your investment, not mine. I can only tell you about the lenses I DIDN'T replace or repair when perhaps I should have!
Good luck with your really cool Leica lens. Have fun with it, that's a really fun lens.
Bill
the apo elmarit has a very deply recessed front element, so I would not have chanced its excellent hf response and risk extra reflections by mounting a filter.And as for cleaning with abrasives, a good rule is not to wipe at all, rather to use a blower and the lens cap. I have not seen any graph of Its transmittivity, but it seems unlikely that any UV would be able to penetrate the lens.
Canon 1DXII + Elmarit-R APO 100mm f2.8 Macro
My first post here at FM. Hoping I upload correctly.
Advice and C&C on photo very much welcome and appreciated. Thank you.
Anita
Good a thread as any... should I pick up a 35mm f/2 2 Cam Series 7, and a 90mm f/2.8 Elmarit R? Price is about $700 with an SL tossed in. Tempted but unsure, I have other similar focal lengths from Nikon and Voigtlander.
