Anitajo24 wrote:
I’m 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!
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
Nov 21, 2019 at 08:16 PM
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