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[Samy]

Originally Posted by Hemuli

Hi Samy,

This is for everyone.
I keep my camera all the time in a tank bag, inside a carrying bag. All my lenses are inside Lowepro lens cases and yes all my lenses have UV-filters.

It is just this small dust on top of the UV-filter and sometimes between the lense and UV-filter that is annoying. I have brush and microfibre cloth (no room for blower). I try to clean the filter surface really often, but still this dust comes from somewhere... I guess it cannot be avoided...
All my lenses are weather sealed, so this is not a problem for me.

One another question:
Any suggestions for graduated filters? My panniers are quite full so would need suggestion of brand and carrying case. 2- or 3-stop?

Spend crazy amounts for best filters for all my different MF and DSLR lenses... Now I regret it. Try to stick to Hoya, Kenko or Tiffen brands. Even sometimes I go for Chinese ones. If it works it is ok for me.

Marketing tricks such as a new name of coatings each time! Huh, am I going to sell my pictures to National Geographic?

Searched and bought a filter case from ebay.

If you buy cheaper lens, no need to keep them in their own plastic case.

In the end we don't need much filters: CPL, for me warming, one or two graduating, may be 2 ND...
We don't need much more than that... no need to be moving studio...
And always can touch to images with Photoshop (if you shoot Raw of course).