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Just curious, do you guys use UV filters or other filters on your contax g glass?
Yes, I do: at least Contax P protective glass, otherwise Uv, yellow, orange, red, green; sometimes, with color film, light blue and a mild one for cloudy weather.
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Bob Michaels
10-04-2007, 14:59
No, 99.8% of the time I use the Zeiss lens naked. When I do use a filter, it's an 81A or 81b to adjust for the cool bias when shooting chrome in shade.
But 98% of the time I am shooting the Contax G with b&w film where I rely on the contrast of the Zeiss lenses.
toyotadesigner
10-07-2007, 14:21
No.
To protect the lenses I use the lens caps as with all my cameras and lenses. Why should I lower the image quality of a perfect lense with a lousy filter?
RF-Addict
10-07-2007, 15:45
No, the glass is too sweet to jeopardize its quality with filters. I love those Zeiss lenses!
Just curious, do you guys use UV filters or other filters on your contax g glass?
ofcourse not
Just curious, do you guys use UV filters or other filters on your contax g glass?
No - the lenses are spectacular and I don't like to stick filters in the way...though I have the G filters in a box somewhere - came with the camera kit when I bought it.
But then I don't tend to use filters as protection on any lens - inc my Canon HJ11 - while others advise always to use them...I've found the 2 sides of the debate to be very polarised... ;)
Using the lens hoods with the G lenses allows you to use those slide on lens caps which are easy to put on and off and offer great protection.
No way. Not unless I'm shooting at the beach in windy conditions, or specifically using color filters for B&W work or a polarizer. But never a P or UV filter. Caps are for protection.
I understand the idea of "being safe" but it's more a camera store's way of selling higher margin filters than anything useful in reality, IMO. In 31 years of using cameras I've yet to bump a lens on the front element. When the lens cap is off I treat it and protect it as if it were my eyes.
Papa Smurf
10-17-2007, 08:18
I too am concerned about this question and I understand that anything in fornt of the lens detracts from its performance. For an old fart like me to have not one but three Ziess lense is a dream come true and I shudder at the thought of having to clean the front element one one of them. But I cannot count the number of times that I have been destracted while in a crowd and out of nowhere a smart aleckey fat kid walks up and puts his all-day sucker sticky thumb right in the middle of my lens! If there was ever a case for birth control!!! :bang:
The other thing is that I live in west central Illinois and we have haze just about everyday! I mean haze so thick that at times it seems like you could reach out and touch it. What am I to do about the bluish tint to all of my pictures? Advice and suggestions and or criticism (helpful critcism) will be appreciated.
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Papa Smurf
With so many SAF kids armed with suckers and such prevalent haze I'd use a UV filter....
I too am concerned about this question and I understand that anything in fornt of the lens detracts from its performance. For an old fart like me to have not one but three Ziess lense is a dream come true and I shudder at the thought of having to clean the front element one one of them. But I cannot count the number of times that I have been destracted while in a crowd and out of nowhere a smart aleckey fat kid walks up and puts his all-day sucker sticky thumb right in the middle of my lens! If there was ever a case for birth control!!! :bang:
The other thing is that I live in west central Illinois and we have haze just about everyday! I mean haze so thick that at times it seems like you could reach out and touch it. What am I to do about the bluish tint to all of my pictures? Advice and suggestions and or criticism (helpful critcism) will be appreciated.
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Papa Smurf
charlesfoto
10-18-2007, 05:49
I guess it depends on the kind of shooting you do. Me, I've never used a filter on my G lenses, and the onlly filter ever used on any of my gear was a 81-series warming filter for a Nikon SLR. If used for protection, I've always felt that the lens hood served that purpose.
Papa Smurf
10-18-2007, 11:29
With so many SAF kids armed with suckers and such prevalent haze I'd use a UV filter....
I was never into filters. Never could afford them while the family was growing so I'm a little confused. Why UV, isn't a 1A supposed to reduce the bluish tint?
Papa Smurf
matthew J Shaw
11-10-2007, 11:11
I know some people will think I'm daft saying this...
But been a pro photographer and the contax been my camera of choice I use it in places I'd prefer not to take it.
So a filter is an essential, I tried V V hard to find good filters and they all seem to dissapoint, but if u must use them (as is my case) I've found u cant do much better than the B+W ranges.
I even use them over my contax ones, simply because I can replace them easily as required.
Hope this helps some of you.
I use heliopan filters (made by Zeiss). I keep a Heliopan UV filter on each lens. However, that's in lieu of a lens cap for when I want to take a grab shot. I have found that leaving the lens cap on in a hurry degrades the quality of the image, while a UV Heliopan lets a lot of highquality light pass through. When I am shooting under no pressure, I remove the filter. I reserve all of the other filters I have acquired over the years (a drawerful) for if and when I ever get a Holga. If they don't fit, there's always epoxy.
Truly the part about the Heliopan in lieu of lens cap is my standard practice.
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