Good, Better or Best

gzhuang · Jan 23, 2016

Would you pay more for a best protector filter or carry 2 good ones?

[video=youtube_share;ax9NU8lbvYQ]http://youtu.be/ax9NU8lbvYQ[/video]

pbromaghin · Jan 23, 2016

This is way beyond the parameters of danger that I would ever expect my equipment to experience.

No. I would not pay more for this.

Just who is going to drop a 1lb ball on my lense?

markbarendt · Jan 23, 2016

I mostly don't use protective filters.

AgX · Jan 23, 2016

see this thread on this too:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

lxdude · Jan 23, 2016

pbromaghin said:
This is way beyond the parameters of danger that I would ever expect my equipment to experience.

No. I would not pay more for this.

Just who is going to drop a 1lb ball on my lense?

It's not one pound. It's 49 grams, about 1.7 ounces.

cmacd123 · Jan 23, 2016

Most hazards would not penetrate even a plain filter. BUT if you are often at the sidelines of a football game, or other activity where their is risk, it might be a good buy. I have been recommending a plain skylight fiter for 40 years now, just to avoid scraching from removing dust, if the filter gets worn, you can replace it.

the harder material may also be more scratch resistant, if you have to keep cleaning the filter because of rain or condensation.

fotch · Jan 23, 2016

It depends. How much more? $1? Maybe. Since I have not needed this level protection in over a half century+++ of photography, the risk reward cost has to be considered. JMHO

Sirius Glass · Jan 23, 2016

I am going to take my Zeiss lenses and repeat this test without a filter first. I will also keep track of the lens strength versus focal length.

I will let you know how it turned out.

AgX · Jan 23, 2016

fotch said:
It depends. How much more? $1? Maybe. Since I have not needed this level protection in over a half century+++ of photography, the risk reward cost has to be considered. JMHO

67-105mm = 100-330

markbarendt · Jan 23, 2016

Sirius Glass said:
I am going to take my Zeiss lenses and repeat this test without a filter first. I will also keep track of the lens strength versus focal length.

I will let you know how it turned out.

I want a video, not of the test but of your face as the test happens.

Sirius Glass · Jan 23, 2016

The test plans call for getting a case of Depends first.

Patrick Robert James · Jan 23, 2016

If you bend a filter ring sometimes (or most of the time) the only way to get the resulting jammed filter off the lens is to gingerly break the glass and bend the ring with a pair of pliers. I can't imagine trying to do that with one of these filters so the net effect of having glass this strong is actually quite negative. That and in all my years of photography I have never seen an impact on a lens that ruined both the filter and the lens surface. Usually the mechanical elements give out first and render the lens useless regardless of how much if any damage is done to the glass. In other words these filters are a solution looking for a problem and in the process probably create a problem that doesn't have a solution.

pbromaghin · Jan 25, 2016

lxdude said:
It's not one pound. It's 49 grams, about 1.7 ounces.

Oops. I didn't see the decimal point on that scale.

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