Safety filters

When buying a lens, an important factor is the purchase of a protective filter. Why is this needed? As the name comes up - to protect the lens, and these are not just empty words, but sensible advice to all amateurs and professionals to protect their favorite lenses.

Type of lens filter

Type of lens filter

Protective filters protect against:

  1. Finger sticking hands of the front lens of the lens is the most common oversight of any photographer. Even having not a little experience behind me, I still see both my and my photographers lenses flogged with their fingerprints. Like it or not, sometimes you want to remove the protective cover from the lens, but it’s not there, and you bury a bare lens instead.
  2. From mechanical stress. Sometimes, the front lens is hit by a photo bag, shoulder, witness's chest at a wedding when shooting a ransom, etc. It is also practically impossible to protect yourself from this. Actually, the motivator for this article was the fact that I broke my protective filter on the corner of the bar counter when reporting. And if it were not for the protective filter, then the front lens would not have been sweet. Therefore, filters really protect against mechanical effects.
  3. From dust, dirt, liquids, etc. You can safely fasten the filter and not worry about the cleanliness of the front lens.

Do you really need a protective filter?

Yes, unlike specific polarizing, stellar, gradient and color filters, which are needed only for a narrow kind of use, a protective filter is desirable always worn on the lens... For example, a protective filter is 100 times cheaper than a lens, and a good lens costs a couple of thousand dollars. it will be a pity to scratch. In the event that the lens has been subjected to strong impact, then scratches and other unpleasant trifles will remain on the filter, which can be easily, painlessly, and most importantly, very cheaply replaced with a new one. You can also wipe the filter with any cloth and also don’t worry that the first piece of cloth that comes across will not leave scratches on the lens.

After installing the filter, the front lens can do exactly the same close with a protective black cover - that is, the filter has two threads on one and the other side. One is screwed into the lens, and the other imitates the same thread as on the lens - for example, for wrapping a hood.

Personally, I use protective filters with an ultraviolet absorbing layer, thus killing two birds with one stone. Protective filters are usually marked as neutral, clear, which usually looks like an English lettering. UV filters are labeled as UV (0), UV (C), etc. Different manufacturers have different designations. It is best to take protective filters with high light transmittance of 95-97% and multilayer coating. You can still read about polarizing filter.

Conclusions:

For expensive lenses, the presence of at least a protective or ultraviolet filter is not a luxury, but irreplaceable thing, which will extend the lens service. And as everyone knows, cameras change, and lenses remain for almost a lifetime.

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Comments: 289, on the topic: Protective filters

  • RONY

    Arkady
    Please advise me some inexpensive filter for 18-55 kit..standard lens! ”!

    • Arkady Shapoval

      any inexpensive filter under 52mm thread.

  • RONY

    yes yes it’s 52mm
    or polarizing filters
    what to look for when to buy?
    there are just a lot of them and all are different =) and prices, respectively ...
    your site is very good and helps a lot….
    here, how can I register?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      All filters perform their own tasks. Therefore, it makes no sense to take a filter about the operation of which you do not know anything. For starters, you can take a protective filter.
      There is no registration on my site, but there is a possibility of subscription http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=radojuva&loc=ru_RU

  • Julia

    I can’t remove the hoya filter without remembering which direction to turn what to remove, but it just scrolls in both .. tell me please what to do ..

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Turn counterclockwise. You can try using a tourniquet for fixing materials.

  • Eugene

    I have a Nikon D5100 kit 18-105, tell me which filter to choose?

    http://voronezh.dns-shop.ru/catalog/i143272/bw-010-uv-alu-67mm.html
    http://www.sotmarket.ru/product/ultrafioletovyj_filter_hoya_uv_0_hmc_67mm.html
    http://www.sotmarket.ru/product/ultrafioletovyj_filter_hoya_uv_c_hmc_67mm.html

    What is the difference between UV (0) and UV (C)?

    ATP for answers

    • Arkady Shapoval

      UV (0) - delays all UV radiation
      UV (C) - only part of the UV spectrum

  • Eugene

    UV (0) - delays all UV radiation
    UV (C) - only part of the UV spectrum

    and then what to prefer?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      no difference, for a digital camera, UV is not critical. As I understand it, you are taking a protective filter, not a UV, because UV will be just an additional property.

  • Eugene

    ATP

  • vitalik

    Hello, can you please tell me what is the problem if, when using a UV protective filter, the colors in the photo turn slightly yellow? Is the problem with the “no name” cheap filter or are they all like that? It didn't bother me much on the whale, but right now I'm looking for 50 1.8 g and I would like a filter without color correction. If the problem is specifically in my filter, then from what price category should I choose the new 58mm so that the colors do not change? Thanks in advance for your answer!

    • Arkady Shapoval

      To begin with, determine exactly if the filter changes the color tone of the pictures. If all the same the problem is in the filter, then just take a better one, for example, B + W

      • vitalik

        The problem is definitely in the filter, it is it that causes yellowness. So what is it, so you can take so that nothing changes in color? You can just take it for 150, or you can take it for 400 ... What price category does not “color correct” exactly? I don't want to throw money down the drain again. Protection is certainly good, but the picture is more important to me. Thanks for the answer.

  • Wool

    Hello, Arkady. I have a Canon eos 600d 18-135 IS. Faced with the choice of a protective filter. After reading your (and many others) article, I realized that it would be better to buy UV. But I am also interested in protection against accidental impacts: I want it to be as secure as possible with the amount that I can spend on a filter. Please tell me if this filter is enough http://www.marumi.com.ua/catshop/174-ultraviolet/0/337/ or still give preference to such http://www.marumi.com.ua/catshop/174-ultraviolet/0/303/ or such http://www.marumi.com.ua/catshop/174-ultraviolet/0/98/ . I don’t fundamentally marumi, I just want to provide my lens with protection against mechanical damage. I will be grateful for the help. thank

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Will be sufficient. It protects from the physical contacts of the lens hood.

  • Wool

    Hello, Arkady, please tell me which filters will max. protection against mechanical damage and accidental shock in this price category: Marumi WPC UV, MARUMI UV MC, HOYA HMC UV (C) or you can even buy MARUMI UV MC, is there a difference? thank

    • Arkady Shapoval

      For mechanical damage, there is not much difference, it is better to take a good hood :)

  • Alexander

    Thank you. Very useful information.

  • Oleg Yudin

    good afternoon. Tell me, is it worth using a hybrid UV + polar filter (like this: Hoya HRT Pol-Circ)? And is it true about light filters - the more expensive the better? thanks

    • Arkady Shapoval

      You must understand what a polaric is before using it. Yes, usually the more expensive the better.

  • Oleg Yudin

    thanks for the answer. But, without using a polarizer, I don’t understand what it is, although I know the solid theory 4.;) I just wanted to know about the purposefulness of the combined light filter.

  • Eugene

    Good evening Arkady, tell me how to take care of the filters, how to wipe them so as not to damage the sprayed UV layers, for example?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      I use Lens Pen, I do not own more detailed informatization.

      • Eugene

        ATP for the answer. I rubbed my (HOYA UV) with ethyl alcohol 70%. There were fingerprints on the filter. Now there are no fingerprints, but there are no 6 antireflection layers either, I think so ((

        • Andrey Super

          All optics are wiped with rectified alcohol (this is highly purified ethyl alcohol), and nothing is erased. Moreover, all alcohol-based cleaning fluids.

  • Oleg

    In various forums on the Internet they write that filters degrade or improve the picture. How really? If B + W UV twist on 18-105 what effect is expected? It costs about 1000r. For example, in macro photography it will help with what?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      In macro photography does not help.

  • Lenin Ulyanov

    Great article! Thank you so much for taking care of our lenses — helpful. And a quick question: how will a camera with AF behave in the presence of Nikn DX AF-S Nikkor 35mm 1: 1.8G ???

    • Arkady Shapoval

      It will behave absolutely adequately. And how should she behave?

  • Lenin Ulyanov

    Can 18-105 work like a “macro”?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Can't, where is such a question from?

  • Lenin Ulyanov

    By the way, about "macro" ... please advise which lens you would use on D7000 / Thank you.

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Nikon 105 vr macro

  • Lenin Ulyanov

    I read the question from Oleg.

  • Lenin Ulyanov

    Thanks for the MACRO.

  • Lenin Ulyanov

    Surely the question of the behavior of the 35th DX AF-S with the D7000 was unsuccessful. I wanted to know how a camera with A.F. drive will respond to an engine built in 35.

  • Lenin Ulyanov

    OK!!!

  • Lenin Ulyanov

    Arkady, for me Nikon 105vr macro is not available for the time being (expensive in terms of), but I want to shoot; tell me maybe there are some other alternatives?

    • Lenin Ulyanov

      What to attach to the D7000 to try to take a picture macro, micro, landscape, portrait, as in good digital cameras, what a magnifying glass. Thank!

      • Arkady Shapoval

        There are inexpensive native Nikon 40mm F2.8

    • Arkady Shapoval

      There are besides 40 2.8 the old 60 2.8, which is very cheap in the secondary market.

  • Nicholas

    is it worth taking http://fotomag.com.ua/Hoya_HD_UV_72mm-info.html on nikon d 7000 18-105 as a protective one for permanent work or better to carry a hood

    • Arkady Shapoval

      The lens hood will not save from sticking and dust, I would take.

  • Nicholas

    Yes http://vtochku.com.ua/product/schneider-bw-010-uv-haze-mrc-xs-pro-digital-72mm/
    http://vtochku.com.ua/product/schneider-bw-486-uv-ir-cut-72mm/ does it make sense to buy such expensive filters for protection and will they justify my expectations and what is the difference between them or is it easier to take http://vtochku.com.ua/product/hoya-hmc-uv0-filter-72mm/ how big is the difference price quality

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Expensive filters give fewer reflections

  • Nicholas

    It’s clear better to buy once and forget than to buy a lot of trash

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