If You Really Love Your Lenses, You'll Put UV Filters On Them
A broken filter is less painful than the heartbreak of a broken lens
I can’t remember where I read about UV filters being used as insurance for lenses. However, since then, I’ve always had one on each of mine. Even for the lenses on my smallest 1-inch sensor cameras. There are few things worse in photography than having to replace a lens you broke because you dropped it or it smashed against something in the field. And while a UV filter can’t protect the entire…
Hmmm I wonder if one could do an abstract representation of the Bug Ferret darkvision by using purple as a stand-in for heat. Like say freezing is black/dark gray, blindingly hot is white, and then cool to warm is varying shades of violet and magenta respectively.
Love when you see a video that's compressed like a twice baked potato because it was a Facebook reel repost of an Instagram reel repost of a TikTok downloaded from YouTube shorts before getting onto Tumblr.
The Modern Lens Hood Is a Massive Problem, Literally
A return to the UV filter?
Years ago, photographers started to move away from using UV filters and opted to use their lens hoods or lens caps instead. And that’s what most photographers do today. But in the past few years, lens hoods have become problematic, at least when it comes to size. We’ve seen this in a lot of our reviews. I haven’t seen a lot of folks talking about it online, but I think it’s worth…