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Do you use (uv) filters on your lenses ?

Couldn't vote Bart, because I don't use regularely, but my deciding factor is not price of the lens, but whether I normally have them on my cam with lens-cap off ready to shoot, like my standard 18-200mm: That has a UV-filter attached. My more expensive 105mm doesn't have one, because I seldom run around with this lens, with the lens cap off.

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Thomas (beware: Nikon-fanboy and moderator!) My Lens Reviews, My Pictures, My Photography Blog
D800+assorted lenses

I always use them. The idea of having to clean the actual front element of a lens just fills me with dread.

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Various lenses, SB800 & Manfrotto 190 with 460MG head

Beware that esp. with wide-angles the filter can introduce quite visible additional flare/ghosting (someone knowledgeable out there on the web wrote).
My white-dwarf-test were all done without a filter attached, not to compromise the results. But unfortunately I didn't do a comparative shot with filter attached. If I have time, I can repeat with almost the same setup - but only with the Sigma 10-20mm, as all the other wide-angles have gone back to the dealer

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Thomas (beware: Nikon-fanboy and moderator!) My Lens Reviews, My Pictures, My Photography Blog
D800+assorted lenses

I would if I had the money but they all seems to end in new (used) lenses somehow.

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Minolta primes: 2.8/20 2.8/24 1.7/50 2.8/135
Minolta zooms: 28-135 35-70 70-210(beercan) kit
Minolta cameras: Dynax 5D 7000
M42: Pentax Asahi S-M-C Takumar 1.4/50 and 2.8/105 Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.4/35 Industar-61L/Z Kiron 2.8/105 Macro

UV filters on all my lenses, cheaper to replace a scratched filter than a new lens.

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Roy
EOS 350D, 40D + BG-E2N, EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM, EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM, 430 EX Speedlite




My Fotopic

I did, untill they created unknowen reflections on both of my lenses.

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Nikon D80 | 18-135mm Kit Lens | 50mm f/1.8 | 4GB 150x Card | SB-600
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I never ever bothered because from my expirence, the "cheap" UV filter (aka. HOYA DMC PRO-1) throws the precise arrangement AF off, by a huge amount. also for me, I never endanger my front lens element, and I clean the front often, my lens is still as sharp from day one

I also always ahere to this rule:
Digital camera + Digital filter = Digital headaches