A case for using filters

Well, me generally having a foot in both camps (using / not using filters) I have decided that filters may be a good thing in certain circumstances.

I.E. when my Manfrotto tripod/20D+grip/16-35L hits the deck from eyelevel onto concrete.
see: https://photography-on-the.net …entid=217276&d=​1193736894

After carefully removing the remains of the Hoya filter, I find the lens working fine, the camera still apparently also functioning properly.
I just need to straighten the very slight ding in the filter thread and I'll be sorted for another one.
I consider myself very lucky this week.

A lens hood would have been a better route.

Hood may have prevented the ding in the filter thread to boot

Glad to hear your gear wasn't damaged in an expensive manner, though...

Curtis N wrote in post #4228015
A lens hood would have been a better route.

have you seen the 16-35 hood? lol...

joeseph wrote in post #4228091
have you seen the 16-35 hood? lol...

Yes, it is small, but pretty strong. It would have absorbed a lot of the force from the fall.

whats with the double exposure in the pic??

Sorry, got to agree with the rest here. Sounds like the title of this thread ought to be "A Case For Using A Lens Hood"

forno wrote in post #4228577
whats with the double exposure in the pic??

Right - I'm off to the optometrist - I didn't even notice it, and thought it wasn't too bad as pics go. Hand-held, with flash and long exposure?

Well - yes and no - Exif says 30s (!) and flash - droopy tripod head?

forno wrote in post #4228577
whats with the double exposure in the pic??

xarqi wrote in post #4228721
Hand-held, with flash and long exposure?

Well - yes and no - Exif says 30s (!) and flash - droopy tripod head?

I think the tripod moved.

that tripod might be possessed, or it doesn't like you