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As I've bought various filters lately I've tended to go with the thinner, wide angle versions. But they're expensive; for example, $130 for the wide angle version and $95 otherwise. I've been buying the thin ones with, frankly, precious little understanding of how much this reduces the risks of ghosting or flare. I tend to shoot in the 24-35mm range a lot. I assume this is what is meant and one doesn't have to be in the ultra wide range to justify the thinner filters. Moreover I have no idea just how much these thinner filters reduce the risks. Am I just blindly forking over extra money?
As an aside, does anyone know if Formatt is generally slow with orders? I ordered one on Oct. 16 through B&H and it still hasn't reached them.
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Submitted By: WAlexStewart
Location: Wisconsin
Joined: Dec 28 2005
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Thin filters: how wide is wide angle?
Posted: December 7, 2006 - 7:35pm
Re: Thin filters: how wide is wide angle?
Posted: December 7, 2006 - 8:28pm
Actually the thin filters are so there is less of a chance of vignetting with the newer larger filter size wide angles.
Submitted By: WAlexStewart
Location: Wisconsin
Joined: Dec 28 2005
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Re: Thin filters: how wide is wide angle?
Posted: December 8, 2006 - 6:16am
Ah, Larry, that makes sense. So I suppose one can judge by the nature of the lens hood: if there's a fair bit of lens hood probably there isn't a vignetting issue with filters. And I recognize my confusion: it's the fancy multicoatings that are supposed to handle flare. Yet B+W doesn't coat their filters, which may tell me something. Moreover, in my limited experience I wonder if multicoating is always applied with quite the quality control one would like.
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