This will RUIN your camera lens 📷 #photography

Lens Filters. Love them or hate them, I've been using filters since the first day I owned a camera and started shooting photos. They serve a very important purpose to protect the front of your lens!

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[jpdj]

It's solid advice, even when all my lenses now have moist/dirt/contamination rejection properties, and I still buy such filters. Expensive lenses, so I bought Hoya Fusion with similar rejection properties. Recently, my camera brand started selling protection/UV filters again. I would have bought these for an even higher price.
Several worries:
(1) Depending on the level of weatherproofing of your camera/lens combinations you need to worry about (gas, air) breathing that happens when you focus and/or zoom. This can suck dust in when the space between lens and camera gets larger because of such movement.
(2) Tint differences. Filters may have a tint (so they deviate from neutral) and one ND filter may be too warm, another too purple, etc. That may not be a big problem as long as all your lens/filter combinations are the same.
(3) A protection filter that cuts out UV may also cut out the extremes on the visible blue side, thus impacting blue and purple tints. Make sure to test that, especially when your camera (brand) is weak in representing such blue and purple tints.
(4) Especially with the cheap filters always have a hood on the lens. Especially with the cheap filters don't be afraid to put a ring of vaseline on them for portraits with a blur-vignette rather than a light-dark one (but remember it has been done a million times already).

[michaelbandeko]

Been into photography for 40+ years. I always have a protector filter on my lenses. They have have saved an expensive lens more than once.

[tonyaleman]

I never use uv fllters. That said, I always have a clear filter on my lenses. It's saved me tens of thousand of dollars in saved glass over the last thirty years.

[goodmrgary]

Most photographers agree with what you said about not covering your nice glass with a cheap filter... most also follow that up with unless you need it to protect from debris at a shoot. If you are getting covered with dust, dirt, sand, water, or something like that then yea of course you add it for protection.

[jacob_s]

I have to agree with what Mark Wiernel said about this same situation; just test it. Do some with & without the filter to see if it is having some affect on your photos. Most premium filter have little to no effect, and even in cases where there is a difference, it's usually very minor, and the value the filter provides by protecting your lens usually outweighs the loss of quality.

Additionally, I think there is a difference between how amateurs and pros should approach this. No one wants to damage a lens, but a pro is not only going to have backups, but they'll also have the extra money to spend on getting a new lens, where as most amateurs aren't going to have extras, and most aren't going to have the money to replace them.
So for most amateurs, protecting their expensive lenses will outweigh minor losses in image quality.

[aakarsh]

I got my first camera early this year, and the shop gave me a $2.50 clear filter. My lens glass would've been done for had it not been for that, so yeah, definitely a good tip.

[aratafreecs]

I never use a protective filter, except when I shoot somewhere where there's potential damage to the lens like dust or sand. The filters also don't take up a lot of space, so I carry them with me

[bukococonut]

I agree. It is useful to use a UV filter. It is easier to clean a filter than a lens. A good filter, with all the coatings, costs about a 100 dollars.

[scherge]

No matter how much money you spend on a clear filter, it will always be cheaper glass than what's inside your expensive lens. Front elements really don't scratch that easily. Using the lens hood protects from almost anything. Maybe it's useful in the situation described here, but apart from that, it's always another piece of glass that doesn't improve the image quality of the lens it's screwed to. So, just recommending expensive UV filters in general feels like an add from one of the manufacturers of those expensive

[bngr_bngr]

I’m a filter and lens hood user. I cringe when I see someone use a lens hood in reverse. I do t understand why they do it.

[stew_redman]

I ALWAYS use a lens hood. Have done for decades. I never use a protection/UV filter. Drop a lens on concrete with any filter and there's a good chance it will bend the filter thread and f**k up your lens anyway. Pointy rocks will go through the filter and damage your lens anyway. I've dropped lenses and damaged hoods - I've never damaged a lens. Flying dust, even from a helicopter, will not damage the glass of your lens as long as you don't wipe the lens with dust and grit on it. Lenses are extremely hard.

[goldenstasgs]

Every filter I used reduce image quality. The more impact on quality filter has the longer focal length you use.

[elccarrillodiaz]

I wouldn't say always. More so for the photographers who are in close range with athletes, vehicles in rocky and sandy areas, and other danger like areas.

[amaromarco]

Uv filter, no.
Modern lens don't need them.
Use a good clear protetor filter.
Hoya or BW.
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[СашаСтепашкин]

Why photographers put filters in front of a lens instead of between lens camera body?

[hermanzhang]

The deduction of image quality isn't very significant in my opinion, so why not put a clear filter over your lens?

[是岳飞还是安禄山]

b+w is THE best. of course hoya and others are not bad at all

[OttyYolf]

Just like a case or screen protector on your phone. A $20 case to protect your $900 phone. I've put a full body case on every phone I've ever owned and never once broken the phone. Scratched the hell out of my case and dropped it multiple times. Always fine.

[pavloshartas-moody]

dont forget to saran wrap the whole thing for underwater shoots.. last time i did one in miami and after i came back I turned the camera upside down and 600 to 700 gallons of water came out... almost ruined the camera. lense was ok though

[mrkat]

I hate UV filters because you get this dot of a lens flair randomly and also a chance to have like the literal image reflection. I shot a shot of a bright door with another reflacted door