Hoya UV Filters from Overstock.com

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These are the cheap and nasty Hoya green series, and only worth about 6pence each.

Probably overstocked as they are junk, and no one would voluntarily pay mony for them.

Yes, they are the same crap we get over here :)
 
if you really have to use a filter (working in a sandstorm or whatever) check out nikon NC or L37C filters, they can be hard to find, but I've never really heard any complaints about them.
 
Read this:

This subject sure seems to come up a lot, but the answer remains the same. If you spend ANY time arguing that you need more DR, more megapixels, better sharpness, less noise, or any other image quality improvement, then the simple fact of the matter is that you shouldn't be using a UV or Skylight filter on your lens. Period. The vast majority of the ones people use produce lower contrast, ghosting, and lower overall acuity. Even the very best such filters are going to have a minor impact. Some of you arguing that you should use a filter for protection would be shocked at what some of those filters do to a lens on MTF tests.

You have great lens - don't spoil them with an extra optical element. Just be careful. Put the money you would have wasted on filters towards some insurance that will cover any accidental damange instead.

See:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1030&message=29150755
 
Never heard of them.

If you must inflict a filter on those lenses - and why you'd want to spend £2k+ and measurably degrade them baffles me - but as you say its a personal thing :thinking:.. then look at B&W's 77mm 010M MRC range.
 
puddleduck said:
Read this:

This subject sure seems to come up a lot, but the answer remains the same. If you spend ANY time arguing that you need more DR, more megapixels, better sharpness, less noise, or any other image quality improvement, then the simple fact of the matter is that you shouldn't be using a UV or Skylight filter on your lens. Period. The vast majority of the ones people use produce lower contrast, ghosting, and lower overall acuity. Even the very best such filters are going to have a minor impact. Some of you arguing that you should use a filter for protection would be shocked at what some of those filters do to a lens on MTF tests.

You have great lens - don't spoil them with an extra optical element. Just be careful. Put the money you would have wasted on filters towards some insurance that will cover any accidental damange instead.

See:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1030&message=29150755
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Looking for a good photography equipment company as we speak :)

I'm very careful (edit: anally retentive) with equipment, they are to be used for beach photography in Southwold, which can be very windy indeed!

Just to clarify, they won't live on the lenses, I need them to protect the lens from high winds + sand.

Edit: thanks, the B&W 77mm 010M MRC looks the part.
 
I bought clear filters for my lens.
I picked up the Hoya pro 77mm filters.
Got them off ebay for 21.50 a filter.Free p & p from hong kong too.
Do a search on there and you will find them.
 
never noticed any difference between naked and a fitlered lens from any tests I've done. you can induce more flare with a filter but that goes for any really.

so long as its a decent multicoated filter you are fine, no point paying through the nose for one either. several canon L lenses are not sealed untill a filter is screwed in and the outer bit of glass on Canons bit super tele's are just plain glass too.

I bought hoyo pro 1 filters from HK for abotu 1/3 of the price in the UK.
 
I use the B+W one above. Lovely.
 
I also hate UV filters, and cheap UV filters with a vengeance :nono:

But one place I'd be inclinded to fit one is defo in a sand storm by the sea :eek:

Hoya Pro-1 Wossnames, or B+W. The most expensive, anyway.

Richard.

PS Don't forget the lens hood. Always :thumbs:
 
Personally if I was going to be shooting on a beach with sand blowing around I'd be much more worried about getting sand into the lens gearing and focus rings - that will cause real damage.
 
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