Re: DSLR and Mirrorless - Filter ?

On 13/08/2024 7:26 pm, Abandoned Trolley wrote:

On 13/08/2024 04:00, Geoff wrote:

Certainly a protection against particulates onto the front element, but is a UV (or whatever) filter of any optical benefit these days ?
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Or a potential liability with essentially an additional element, and potential flare from the surface being closer to the front of a lens- hood ?
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geoff

  Or maybe consider the lens hood as a bit of a liability ?
 I owned at least one telephoto lens which suffered from vignetting caused by the supplied lens hood

I think it would be a bit of a scandal if a Nikon piece did that ....
geoff