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>In article <5e39i1$nr8@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, d_ruether@hotmail.com (Bob
>Neuman) wrote:
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>> >You have personally tested the brands head to head at the same time or you
>> >believe that your statement is true without having actually compared them?
>> There is no need to do that... If I establish that (relatively inexpensive)
>> filter brand X (through testing) is (for all practical purposes), optically
>> perfect (and it has a good-quality rim), there is no need to compare it
>> directly with any other (possibly MUCH more expensive) filter brand. Being a
>> seller of fine, expensive filters, you may not want me to say this, but in
>> my experience, an inexpensive Hoya multi-coated filter, for ALL *practical*
>> purposes, is as good as is required for the most critical use (since there
>> is NO discernable image sharpness degradation resulting from its use under
>> most circumstances, even very demanding ones, so there is nothing to be
>> gained by spending more money on another filter...).
>So you are making declarative statements with no experience in comparing
>brands in an actual test so your answer is simply not factual.
>Go out a buy a Heliopan, a B+W and a Tiffen UV and compare them yourself.
>Even more educational is to compare polarizers.
>Then your statements will be based on facts.
You seem to have been unable to follow the logic of my statement...
To wit: perfection (obtained at a reasonable price...) is complete
in itself - trying more expensive filters, I can only find that
(at a higher price...) I have purchased NO advantage (though they
could actually be worse....). Personally, I HAVE tried lots of
filters - and by my own logic, have wasted money on the (mostly)
Nikkors that I own...;-) Notice that I have not said that B & W,
Heliopan, and other filters (with the exception of Tiffen filters
[I don't like their thick rims and their tendency to fog in storage],
and cheapo [clearly inferior] filters) are poor - they are fine filters,
just an unnecessarily expensive choice, since, to repeat, "An inexpensive
Hoya multi-coated filter, for ALL *practical* purposes, is as good as is required for the most critical use (since there is NO discernable image sharpness degradation resulting from its use under most circumstances,
even very demanding ones, so there is nothing to be gained by spending
more money on another filter..." This conclusion DOES come from testing
and experience! I trust that the above is not too hard to understand...;-)
(And, BTW, we were talking about UV filters [with which I would include
the colored filters as being similar in quality level], but differences
certainly are apparent with the rim design and color balance of polarizers
offered by different makers - here, more money spent on the filter MAY
[or may not...] result in a more usefully higher-quality filter.)
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