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

MASTERPPA wrote:

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.

You have all kinds of "examples", don't you? So yeah, for someone with your odd track record of not protecting your lenses with sensible lens hood and lens cap and love to just beat your camera through bushes and rocks, and who oddly enough does have lenses with "soft coatings", sure. You should put on thin slabs of flat glass on all your lenses all the time.

And sure, you will never get extra lens flares introduced and will never get ghost lights. Sure.

Funny thing is that the only filter I ever use may be a pol. filter.

Now for some TRUE stories:

I go hiking through the forest often. I bike/walk through forest, urban areas. I have dropped a certain lens twice. One time it tumbled a few stairs down till it hit a concrete floor, the lens hood broke its fall (it split on the side), the lens was fine. I dropped it on concrete side walk tiles from about a meter when switching lenses, its lens cap got a tiny mark and a tiny chip of white paint on the zoom ring is missing. Lens is fine. No filter to tray and pry off on both occasions, no broken thin slab of glass wanting to put scratches on the front element either. Since I do not protect stuff with... thin slabs of glass.

I have about 14 lenses. None of them I "protect" with UV filters. None of them have scratches on front or back elements, none of them have ever broken a front element.

Of course, there are situations thinkable where you CAN use a UV filter for protection where it actually makes sense. When sand is flying around. Or when it creates weather sealing during conditions where that is a good idea.

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.