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Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L with cracked filter stuck on lense. Any ideas to remove?

Started May 22, 2013 | Questions thread
MASTERPPA Contributing Member • Posts: 870
Re: Now you know why not to use filters for "protection"

Both is best. The old lens hoods on the 24-70 version 1 was great for protection.

New hoods are not much more then shock dampers.

Depending on the hardness of your front lens, and what you are doing, UV glass is best is most cases.

My macro lens is the best example. Their are all kinds of scratches on the front of the UV filter, and these would have been on the lens element.

My lens hit a rock face one time while hiking, (it was not very hard, the camera was swing as I was hiking next to a rock wall) the UV glass did not shatter, but had a BAD scratch on it..

brightcolours wrote:

NomadMark wrote:

If you didn't have a filter mounted, that damage would have been done to the front end of the lens. I'd sooner have issue taking a broken filter off, than never being able to get one back on, or worse!!

Nonsense. He had no lens hood on. With hood the lens would be fine.

People get to all kinds of odd ideas in order to keep on using thin slabs of glass to "protect" lenses.

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