Originally posted by richardstringer I bought the Hoya filter from Amazon which are pretty damn good, i've never heard of any fake stuff on there.
Quote richardstringer: UV filters degrade image quality
I wasn't 100% sure if they did, but yeah, they do. I used to have a 7DayShop cheap one on my old Nikon D5100 and it did degrade the image quality a bit, there was a little less sharpness and contrast and the image could be quite hazy sometimes. Anyway, now i've got a Pentax K30, I was using a Hoya and i've noticed more image quality degrdation, in fact the Hoya degrades image quality it seems, more than the cheap 7Day Shop one I used to have.
Anyway, i've done some research and quite a bit of googling and found that most people are in agreement too. Now I just don't use one, I know it's not protecting my lens front glass by not using one but I spend £500 on a K30 to get excellent image to then have a UV filter degrade the wonderful image quality. Do any of you guys notice the degredation of image quality?
Well Sir, its time for us to get confused.
Quote richardstringer Sir again: I bought the Hoya filter from Amazon which are pretty damn good, i've never heard of any fake stuff on there
So what is the problem??
Sir, Please do Google for the 1001 fake stuff sold on eBay, Amazon and other online retailers - SD cards, filters, Chinese fake DSLR cameras, Gillette Mach 3 shaving blades, Ray Ban Sun Glasses, and so on and on .....
Good Luck.