chuxter wrote:
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Do you know how often I clean which lens or filter?
Yes...at least if you can be believed. You wrote that you cleaned them each week!
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But what my filters do is protect the front element of my lenses from scratches or cleaning marks when cleaning them with my shirt, lol, happens about once a week when I´m on a walk and have forgotten once more to bring my micro-fibre cloth... "
I underlined the cleaning interval, to help you find it... ;-)
I know where and when I wrote what, lol! I just "kept a little door open" for you to come back to this thread. ;-) Knew you would.
I think you will agree that "once a week" actually doesn´t say anything, unless you also know about how many lenses we´re talking here! If it was about the same lens all the time, yes, once a week would be quite a bit too much! But - I´m more than "knee deep" into old manual lenses, lol, (maybe I should block ebay from my computer!), means I could shoot a different lens each week from January at least until early fall, lol! So for some lenses it would be more correct to say "once a year" and not "once a week". And from late fall until spring there is usually not much reason at all for me to clean any lens or filter.
I agree...but leave the pollen on the lens...never try to remove pollen with a dry cloth! A few pollen grains don't affect the pix any more than a good UV filter does.
It´s what I usually do. it´s just that there are some that can´t be blown off as they are almost sticky, but don´t ask me now what tree/plant they come from, no idea.
And cleaning a good filter every week will ruin it! Just stop it!
I still have to ruin my first B+W MRC by cleaning, no idea how to do this!
It's probably "toast" already. Have you tested the AR coatings to see if they are intact and functioning?
I "use" filters on some of my lenses, Chuxter, but that doesn´t mean I´m on some kind of "filter mission" and even test them, lol! If I would visually detect scratches or other cleaning marks they would go; but so far I haven´t seen a need to do so.
Most are 52mm, since every Nikkor lens I had used that size. Sorry...
Would fit (among on some others) on my two 105/2.5 AIS, lol! Lovely lens, btw; on the 520 they´re stabilized 210/2.5! (But both came with filters, not B+W, but Nikon).
Talking about Nikon filters, maybe we could forget about our little "verbal ping-pong game" now and put it to sleep, ;-) here´s a serious question to you:
Different to other brand lenses I see it very often on ebay, that Nikkors come with a skylight L1Bc and not the usual UV L37c. Now when I leave this skylight on the lens, the results on my Oly always look a little wrong, thinking of color here. Just what I would expect from a skylight filter, a little less blue, changing everything a bit towards warm, away from what I´ve actually seen when taking the shot.
My question now: Is this any different when used on a Nikon body? Do Nikon images look closer to reality if a bit of blue is filtered out? Do Nikon OOC images tend a bit towards blue so this skylight filter makes sense here? Would be nice to hear your opinion on this!
Thou shalt never try to stop a missionary if he´s on a mission, just wish him good luck! (when cleaning front elements, lol!) ;-)
René
