Gregory wrote:
I'm the exact opposite. I never carry a UV on any lenses, just extra
glass my sharpness is required to pass through. I keep my lenses hoods
on at all times instead. I have yet to lose a lenses from blowing out
the glass. I have also never lost any threads from using metal hoods,
dented but functional is my norm. I have lost plenty of those plastic
hoods.
I've done both at various times with various lenses (though, looking
back, I see a pattern that my more expensive lenses are the ones I DON'T
put a filter on). Haven't lost a lens or hood or even the threads to a
fall in any case.
My friends are amazed at how badly I treat my equipment. Anyone out
there put plastic baggies on the feet of your tripod before use? I
have a friend who does.
Not a baggy guy in that context, no.
I seem to handle my cameras somewhat gently, given how long they last
and how few dents they have, but I don't feel it interferes with my
getting pictures.
Hmmm; what are the craziest things people have done with their cameras?
Only the first one of mine impresses even ME very much; I'm not a huge
risk-taker.
I set my D700 on its back on the ground, pointed up at the muzzle of a
mortar less than two feet away, knowing that in addition to the
gunpowder and the projectile there were two baggies of gasoline in the
barrel to "enhance" the muzzle blast; I had to clean a thin layer of
gasoline off the front of the lens after that one. The picture was
spectacular.
I've lowered cameras off a bridge by the tripod, to take shots from
close to water level. As I remember it, the pictures weren't in the end
very interesting.
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