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Posted 15/12/2008 - 19:42
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Not being that daft I took an old 49mm Pentax filter and bashed that on my knee in a cupped hand wearing a glove. I hurt my knee.
As I say, 25 years and I have never ever seen a broken filter* but I have seen my ignorant staff scrubbing at the front of a lens with any old grubby bit of cloth that comes to hand. I am not using the filter to protect against big thumps, but from dirt and the occasional small sharp object being dropped into the bag (e.g. my handy hotshoe-fitting spirit level). I use the filters to protect my lenses from the sort of abuse they get on a regular basis. In an ideal world I wouldn't be cack-handed, my staff wouldn't be ignorant about all-things photographic, and I'd be 25 again. Courses for horses...
Cheers, Kris.
*I lie. I once saw a tripod-mounted Nikon fall over onto a stone cairn. The filter broke but the lens was also rammed backwards into the camera body and the whole thing was a write-off.
As I say, 25 years and I have never ever seen a broken filter* but I have seen my ignorant staff scrubbing at the front of a lens with any old grubby bit of cloth that comes to hand. I am not using the filter to protect against big thumps, but from dirt and the occasional small sharp object being dropped into the bag (e.g. my handy hotshoe-fitting spirit level). I use the filters to protect my lenses from the sort of abuse they get on a regular basis. In an ideal world I wouldn't be cack-handed, my staff wouldn't be ignorant about all-things photographic, and I'd be 25 again. Courses for horses...
Cheers, Kris.
*I lie. I once saw a tripod-mounted Nikon fall over onto a stone cairn. The filter broke but the lens was also rammed backwards into the camera body and the whole thing was a write-off.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 15/12/2008 - 19:49
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In your situation Kris, I'd have filters on the lenses too (or not let them near your monkies :lol. But for general use I avoid them.
A filter is more likely to break than a lens front element. So if it is knocked, it's more likely to break and almost certainly damage the lens element. If there's no filter on, there's a better chance the lens may be fine.
By the way, I didn't actually expect you to try the experiment...
Dan
A filter is more likely to break than a lens front element. So if it is knocked, it's more likely to break and almost certainly damage the lens element. If there's no filter on, there's a better chance the lens may be fine.
By the way, I didn't actually expect you to try the experiment...
Dan
K-3, a macro lens and a DA*300mm...
Posted 15/12/2008 - 20:28
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Daniel Bridge wrote:
A filter is more likely to break than a lens front element. So if it is knocked, it's more likely to break and almost certainly damage the lens element. If there's no filter on, there's a better chance the lens may be fine.Dan
I agree. There is very little chance the lens will break but I will probably have a better chance on the insurance with "it dropped from a great height and broke" than "someone cleaned it for me..." A filter is more likely to break than a lens front element. So if it is knocked, it's more likely to break and almost certainly damage the lens element. If there's no filter on, there's a better chance the lens may be fine.Dan
Daniel Bridge wrote:
By the way, I didn't actually expect you to try the experiment...
Dan
I was curious. Who was it who took their K10 into a shower...? By the way, I didn't actually expect you to try the experiment...
Dan
Best wishes, Kris.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 15/12/2008 - 20:41
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I was curious. Who was it who took their K10 into a shower...?
Hey, hey, lets be careful with the wording! I was curious. Who was it who took their K10 into a shower...?
I did not "take the camera into the shower", implying _with me_.
My camera and I are often quite close, but that is just getting a bit too weird!
I did hold the camera under the shower head and take a few shots, etc...
A torrential rain storm was much worse and actually allowed a very tiny drop of water to enter the connector socket door. Anyway, I am pleased with the water tightness of the kit!
I also dropped my K10D with DA* 50-135 from about four feet with no adverse side effects on either camera nor lens. No not intentionally -- an old tripod did not hold the camera in portrait mode very well... tripod is no more
(I don't think the DA* 16-50 would hold up to that, but that 50-135 is a wonderful beast.)
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I dare say the front element would have still looked pretty horrible had it smashed into whatever instead of the filter. Surely any bump bad enough to break the filter would leave a pretty nasty gash in the front element?
Now I dare you to do the same with a filter on...
Dan