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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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What is your “Photography pet peeve”? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by iShootLife@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Just curious. I know everybody’s different.

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[–] newmikey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whenever you clean the lens you erode the coating and risk scratching it. Meanwhile you can scrub a filter clean with a tissue while on the go.

Now read your words back slowly and carefully. So you care about not scratching your lens why? To put a piece of scratched glass in front of it? What have you accomplished by doing that - bad IQ.

[–] yenyostolt@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You seemed to miss my point. The filter cost $40 to replace, which I do when it needs replacing.

[–] newmikey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You seemed to miss my point. The filter cost $40 to replace

No, it rather is YOU who missed my point. Sticking a $40 filter in front of what you claimed is your $2k lens" is just outright insanity.

Either you buy a cheap lens and you don't care enough about image quality or its front element to put any cheap piece of glass in front of it or you buy a very expensive less in which case you especially do not want to degrade its potential IQ by dumping a cheap piece of glass in front of it.

You cannot win, the $40 cheap filter has no proper use case whether you have a cheap or an expensive lens.