Re: [Leica] UV filter for Noctilux-measurable light loss??

[Krechtz@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/17/00 2:00:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
images@InfoAve.Net writes:

<< I learn a lot here, too, John; but I'm not about to start using 
 filters!  Even one photo lost to reflections or flare is too many. >>

    Right.  A truly important photographic moment may prove to have been 
unique, therefore not repeatable.  However, a lens, albeit as outstanding and 
expensive as a Noctilux, usually is repairable or replaceable.  
    If one is committed to learning and exploiting anything like the full 
potential of such a lens, a calculated risk is acceptable.  Concern with loss 
of value indicates that one intends not to keep the lens but to sell it.
    Each photographer must at some point address the question of priorities.  
Is the true value of the lens to a given owner in what it can do or the price 
for which it was purchased or will be sold?
    It is in fact a personal decision, really not subject to meaningful 
debate.  As I said before, yer pays yer money, yer takes yer choice.  
Obviously, certain lines may be drawn.  It may be legitimate, for example, to 
distinguish among dealers, testers, collectors and photographers.  They do 
different things with different goals and purposes in mind.  Photographers 
tend to concentrate on making photographs, rendering other concerns secondary 
- - not necessarily irrelevant, but clearly secondary.

Joe Sobel