Marumi DHG Super Lens Protect 82mm Filter owners?

Hello,

need protection filter for EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM

Plan is to buy Marumi DHG Super Lens Protect 82mm Filter.

Maybe someone own this filter and can answer couple of questions:

1. does genuine Canon cap fits on this filter?

2. additional vignetting on 16mm angle??

Thanx in advance

LiMMeS wrote:

Hello,

need protection filter for EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM

Plan is to buy Marumi DHG Super Lens Protect 82mm Filter.

Maybe someone own this filter and can answer couple of questions:

1. does genuine Canon cap fits on this filter?

2. additional vignetting on 16mm angle??

Thanx in advance

FWIW:

If you use a lens hood, the only thing a "protection filter" can do it guard against the confidence that your lens will perform as the optical designer intended. Ask any of them about "protecting" a lens with any filter, and watch a grown man cry.They want no glass-air surfaces and gaps between the lens and the subject.

Modern coatings are tough, and a little dust on the lens surface will not affect your photos unless you're shooting into the sun - maybe not even then. A lens brush is cheaper, and keeps your lens operating the way it was designed. Learn to keep your fingers off lens surfaces, use lens caps when the lens in not in use. All better than the best "protection filter.

Protection filters are one of the camera retailer's oldest rackets. Same category as "undercoating" used to be in the auto dealer trade until the FTC cracked down on it. Like "protection filters," they introduced new issues that the owner didn't appreciate...

I'm using a HOYA Pro-1D 82mm UV and it is compatible with the cap and does not cause additional vignetting.

And don't let those naked runners talk you out of buying a UV filter. My friend had a 16-35 damaged by sea water splash entering from the front. It is NOT weather sealed without a front filter.

Also all Canon L lense beside the super-teles need a front filter to seal the lens. That includes the famous 70-200 IS II. Trust me, I disassembled one and it is obviously NOT sealed on the front without a filter. There is a big open gap between filter thread and front element retaining ring. You want your L lenses to work in all environments you likely to shoot and don't feel like babying them? Put one some good UV filters.

Pixel peepers will cry this makes your image smear! Additonal flare! I've shot landscape with Lee Grad resin filters on it and it is sharp at pixel level.

Mel Snyder wrote:

LiMMeS wrote:

Hello,

need protection filter for EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM

Plan is to buy Marumi DHG Super Lens Protect 82mm Filter.

Maybe someone own this filter and can answer couple of questions:

1. does genuine Canon cap fits on this filter?

2. additional vignetting on 16mm angle??

Thanx in advance

FWIW:

If you use a lens hood, the only thing a "protection filter" can do it guard against the confidence that your lens will perform as the optical designer intended. Ask any of them about "protecting" a lens with any filter, and watch a grown man cry.They want no glass-air surfaces and gaps between the lens and the subject.

Modern coatings are tough, and a little dust on the lens surface will not affect your photos unless you're shooting into the sun - maybe not even then. A lens brush is cheaper, and keeps your lens operating the way it was designed. Learn to keep your fingers off lens surfaces, use lens caps when the lens in not in use. All better than the best "protection filter.

Protection filters are one of the camera retailer's oldest rackets. Same category as "undercoating" used to be in the auto dealer trade until the FTC cracked down on it. Like "protection filters," they introduced new issues that the owner didn't appreciate...

would you use a Polarizer or an ND filter on your lens? Yes or No?

Hi LiMMeS

I have had the 16-35 II with a Marumi "DHG Lens protect" filter for 4 1/2 years and shot ~14k pictures without any obvious problems. I have thought of purchasing a B&W equivalent filter to replace it but in the absence of any obvious problem with the Marumi have not done so yet.

I have tried taking pictures with and without the filter in tricky situations but removing the filter did not show any advantages.

YMMV, Allan

Thanx

paure1 wrote:

Hi LiMMeS

I have had the 16-35 II with a Marumi "DHG Lens protect" filter for 4 1/2 years and shot ~14k pictures without any obvious problems. I have thought of purchasing a B&W equivalent filter to replace it but in the absence of any obvious problem with the Marumi have not done so yet.

I have tried taking pictures with and without the filter in tricky situations but removing the filter did not show any advantages.

YMMV, Allan