On 5 Nov 1998 00:04:11 -0600, rmonagha@news.smu.edu (Robert Monaghan) wrote:

>greetings; here is some info on different UV filter absorption rates for UV
>that may be surprising to some folks, from my (longish) page on filters and
>related posts (this is from a posting, obviously:)
[......]
>Based on this table is obvious that a UV and Sky 1A (the most popular
>filters for standard lens
>protection filters less UV light than most believe they should filter.
>This is why my standard filter
>for all my lenses is the Haze 2A.
>end-quote

But - if the lens itself transmits virtually no UV of interest,
why bother to further filter for UV...?