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    Re: quality of lens filter



    I have never used a mamuri filter ?, but I find Schneider B + W lens filters very good quality


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    Re: quality of lens filter



    Quote Originally Posted by unjx
    I have never used a mamuri filter

    Mamuri? Never heard of them either!!!


    Quote Originally Posted by unjx
    I find Schneider B + W lens filters very good quality

    +1 for the B+Ws!!!


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    Re: quality of lens filter



    I am of the house of no filter, but I've been told B+W is the only way to go.


    I've never heard of Mamuri. But it can be a real compromise put a $20 piece of poor glass over your (multi) $1000 precision glass.


    Shoot some controlled images with it on and off check the detail.

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    Might also want to see if it affects flare, lights at night or something, or maybe the sun near the corner of the frame. Just a thought. I like how the B+W 010 filters feel, and look, though I haven't done extensive shopping. A guy at a camera store convinced me to try a Roddenstock (sp?) filter, telling me it was better than the B+W, and I returned it the next day. It just didn't feel (physically) right. The way it fit into the threads wasn't very reassuring. Seemed maybe better built than the Tiffen, but not a B+W. I replaced it with a B+W MRC 010.


    On the lenses that I've loaned out or given away, They've had Tiffen and Hoya filters. But I really like the B+W. I've never felt compromised, with the exception of vignetting on my 16-35 and 24-105 when they're wide. I feel that it would be a little less with no filter, but i'm just too paranoid to go naked [*-)]

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    Re: quality of lens filter



    thank you for your time and information, greetings

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    Re: quality of lens filter



    Quote Originally Posted by Colin


    I've never felt compromised, with the exception of vignetting on my 16-35 and 24-105 when they're wide.
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    B+W offer special 'slim' filters to minimise this vignetting and the difference is remarkable. They are however even more expensive than the normal B+W ones. So with those two lenses: make sure to use a proper sized filter. (Particularly on the 16-35 because the effect of a normal UV filter on the vignetting is strongest here).

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    Re: quality of lens filter



    thank you very much for your replay

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    thank you for your information

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    thank you very much for your interest and information

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