i like to take care of my lenses a lot, so i put both a hood and a uv filter on them

@ormagic9612

10 ай бұрын

Thats smart.

@blanked3

10 ай бұрын

I do the same, especially with a UV filter, man I never have to worry about scratching my front element because the filter gets scratched first, and thsm I can replace the filter, instead for the lens

@KeatsIT

10 ай бұрын

@@blanked3 you can scratch the front element hard with a key or a rock and it will not show up in photos, u can find people testing it here on YT. Meanwhile that useless filter is bending light worsening each one of your shots.

@JailerGamer

10 ай бұрын

​@@KeatsITyeah but the resale value goes down

@KeatsIT

10 ай бұрын

@@JailerGamer you do you, I value more using my gear properly and getting the best possible result than a "what if" future resell.

Buy a 1000$ piece of glass, cover it up with a 10$ piece of glass.

@SapnaReddyphotography

10 ай бұрын

Hopefully you are taking off that cheap glass before your shoot.

@reinhard8053

10 ай бұрын

And swap the 10$ piece instead of the 1000$ lens if anything happens. Or just continue to shoot without the now broken filter.

@bilcarter

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. This guy gives horrible advice. And that 50mm 1.2 lens is more like $2300.

@richierichardo209

9 ай бұрын

​@@bilcarterhe's good with "tiktok time limit enunciation" though 😂

@nicktrieu8129

9 ай бұрын

Exactly.

The lens hood will naturally boost contrast, to me that looks better than any added in post

@AnalogFilmDiary

10 ай бұрын

I don’t understand the physics of how this is true since the incident light that creates the image will never come from the where the hood is, else it’d be visible in the image. Is it just because it’s refracting and scattering in the lens, but then wouldn’t it also add noise and overall brightness? Can you please explain, Keen to learn

@barneylaurance1865

9 ай бұрын

@@AnalogFilmDiary Yes it is light that scatters inside the lens and it does add overall brightness. Adding brightness everywhere reduces the contrast between the dark areas and the light areas. It may make it impossible to see some fine details in the darkest parts of the image.

@TheUlitamateStunt

7 ай бұрын

Especially if you're not looking at the light, a lens hood prevents light from scattering and illuminating the front element in particular. The best example of this is when you're shooting side on to the sun, the sun is not in the shot but it's shining directly onto your front element and this will make the image extremely washed out, but it won't necessarily create an actual lens flare. This is why many photogs use lens hoods when shooting outdoors and film crews use matte boxes with flags.

A les hood can totally save your lens if you drop it

@reinhard8053

10 ай бұрын

That works good with tele lenses, but with wide angle lenses it only protects in some cases because there is not much of a lens hood.

When your super expensive lens has been through countless hours of testing, research and development just for you to not use the hood and get chromatic aberrations like a $30 lens for the 1950’s with lens fungus…

I hope the glass in those UV filters is just as high quality as the glass it’s covering, otherwise it makes them expensive lenses worthless mostly

Some old lenses cannot be used without a lens hood. The contrast will drop to 0 on some lenses in direct sunlight. Some cheap UV cut filters can soften the image and reduce sharpness significantly. Also, UV filters can introduce reflections between the filter and the lens, which can lead to lower contrast.

@th1649

10 ай бұрын

Expensive UV filters are a scam in my opinion. Doesn't matter the price, they always cause reflections.

@captiveimage

9 ай бұрын

I think the point about 'size' has some validity, but the majority of hoods I have will go on in reverse, so you still add a bit of girth, but there's no issue with length. For all else, I think that uv filter use is completely bogus. £1000 lens covered with crap filter. No. Also, is you smack a lens with a hood, the hood may break. If you smack a lens with a uv filter, it's inevitable that the lens is still going to be hassled, and best of luck getting the damn filter off. Lens hood every time!

The fact you wiped your lens with your shirt kinda says it all. Been a professional photographer for 5 years I’m not paying all that money for a lens to use it without the hood, even if it’s less convenient!

@thegreenworldch962

9 ай бұрын

😂

@AdrienWilliams-ot5zb

9 ай бұрын

I cringed when he did that. 🫣

@warmoaran3

2 ай бұрын

pretty sure he wiped the filter..

@vffa

15 күн бұрын

Isn't this an ongoing meme with him? He does it because it makes our blood boil.

Funny thing, people are like “I wish manufacturers made a lens to protect your lens” then if they do and it costs like 500$, they’ll be like “I better put this UV filter on to protect that 500$ piece of glass that is supposed to protect my lens.

@AdrienWilliams-ot5zb

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 insanely accurate

I use lens hood to protect the front of the lens from rain 😅

It is not just lens flares but also diffuse reflection. In my experience, a lenshood increases contrast in my images. I rarely use UV filters, as they actually can add additional reflections, no matter how good the coating of those filters is and I have 100€ UV filters!... I use them to protect vor example from oils or smoke. Also: A lens hood protects not just the front element of the lens but it also serves as a sort of crumble zone for your falling camera...

@stevenjohnson4283

10 ай бұрын

How is shattering/breaking glass of UV filter going a "crumple zone" to the front element. They're millimeters apart! Lens caps are the actual protectors of the front lens element, and a lens hood also protects a falling lens as well. A UV filter with a half a centimeter to the front element isn't gonna protect s**t.

Most lens hoods can be put on the lens backwards for storage so they add almost no bulk, especially the super expensive lenses you use

You can just flip the lens hood around and put it on backwards to save space

@BangBangNoee

7 ай бұрын

I know, I don’t even find it to take up that much space tbh. I think he makes videos just to make videos lol

Truly, a filter once prevented my front element from broken but I prefer putting a hood rather then filter.

@barneylaurance1865

9 ай бұрын

How can you be sure that the filter prevented the front element from breaking? The filter is probably much thinner and weaker than the front element, something that broke the filter might not have broken the front element.

@amitm1975

9 ай бұрын

@@barneylaurance1865 as a fact my camera felt from 1.2m on the lens. The filter craced and the front element wasnt affected. 😊.

I have had a lens hood save two of my lenses when dropped (and thankfully the only two times they were dropped). The hood is also very helpful to reduce the effect of rain.

When I don't have a lens hood, I use my hand and cup it around the lens in the direction of the light. The contrast and clarity boost is night and day. Use your lens hood people.

I do use lens hood in one of my lens, filter on other and none for the 3rd one 🤣

@maxbenson9982

10 ай бұрын

Kit lens gets no love, huh?

@erikpapaplays

10 ай бұрын

@@maxbenson9982 I don’t own a kit lens. it’s a nifty fifty prime lens and haven’t bought any lens filter or hood for that lens yet and I barely used the lens since it was bought this year.

In 1970,s cannon lenses came with uv filters to protect your front elements. The lens hood was sold separately and made of rubber, but cost forced them to sell the uv filter separately and give away lens hoods

I've completely stopped using uv filters because uv filters can get scratched more easily than the lens's front element. In my case, it actually made my images less sharper.

@willoughbykrenzteinburg

8 ай бұрын

That's literally the main reason people put UV filters on their lenses. It's the cheapest filter uou can get. It protects against UV light. Most importantly, if you drop or scratch your lens, you scratch or chip the $10 filter instead of the $800 lens. A lens hood doesn't do much if youre....you know, taking pictures of the sun. A lens hood is not meant for what he is saying. It's just mindless, easy content for his youtube channel. It's something to say for 60 seconds that people will watch because he has a lot of followers. More power to him - its a revenue stream, but NOBODY buys a lens hood to protect their camera from UV rays; they use a lens hood for one reason : to prevent lens flare.

@SwaypenYT

8 ай бұрын

@@willoughbykrenzteinburg 1. DSLRs and Mirrorless already have a UV Filter built in. 2. The UV Filter makes images less sharper.

@willoughbykrenzteinburg

8 ай бұрын

@@SwaypenYT There is no merit to the claim that UV filters noticeably affect image quality - and if they do, it's at the pixel peeping level. I did not claim that cameras needed a UV filter. I explained what a UV filter does - - and since it's among the cheapest filters you can get, it's a good solution to protect your lens from scratches and things like that. UV light doesn't affect the image necessarily, so they are not applying any image altering. I have a UV filter on every lens - - not to block UV light, but to protect the lens. As do many others.

@SwaypenYT

8 ай бұрын

@@willoughbykrenzteinburg I'm a photographer who does landscapes and portraits. I've had an UV Filter on my lens before, and it made my images less sharp. You can look online and see what others have said. I'm not the only one saying this.

@willoughbykrenzteinburg

8 ай бұрын

@@SwaypenYT then you had a shitty uv filter

Lens hoods have saved me a bunch, especially with sports photography where basketballs and football players have nearly destroyed my lenses if it weren’t for the lens hood.

Its not just lens flare, its lost contrast too. And if there's rain or snow you really need the hood.

Alternate view is all your lenses made of amazing glass have a crappy filter stuck on the front ;)

Thank you for clearing up, what I thought made sense. As someone who's dabbling in photography. I've always used filters As the actual lens is protected from dirt, water & damage. Let alone there's less cleaning. Whereas a lens hood adds more bulk.

The lense hood is not for protection. It blocks unwanted stray light. If light gets on the glass, it desaturates the image. If you want that look great. If you want fully saturated and clean colors, you put it on.

For me I noticed UV lens filters just seemed to attract more dust than without it.

If the filter breaks due to any hit, the particles could scratch the front element.

Litterally just seen your short on "you need a lense hood". Every video you do, you do another to contradict it. 😂

Yeah I don't use any lens caps for the same reason, but when I bounced a lens off something I'm so happy to have it.

And of course uv filters dont ruin your "thousand million" dollar lens image quality..

I use lens hoods when it rains so the front elements of my lens doesn't get wet

Take strap of bag. Pull lenshoods in a pile on each other through. Reattach strap. Doesn't work on all bags but if it does, it saves you space.

I can see where you're coming from, but putting a $100 piece of glass in front of your $2,500 lens unnecessarily reduces image quality. The antiglare coatings and extensive engineering are why these lenses are so expensive, throwing a UV filter on the end nullifies both. UV filters are also pretty brittle, so if it does break, not only do you have a bag full of glass and fine particles that could work into focus rings and between elements, but you also run the risk of scratching your lens while it shifts around in your bag. Lens hoods also help preserve contrast and saturation. There's a reason lenses come with hoods and not filters.

Don't forget about contrast

I use B+W filter and hood on every lens. Even when pixel peeping I can’t see difference with/without filter. I used to use cheaper filters in my young and dumb days; not any more.

At first, I thought this was lame, but it turned out I was doing the same after a while. The hood is ridiculously huge with big lenses. I opted for varial ND and CPL filter. When there is a need for light, I just take it off, but rarely is that the case.

plus lens filter particles do not impact the picture quality Those reversal covers aren't too bad and have a cover as well, just a lot of parts to manage.

So do I. But a lot of people swear that uv filters destroy your photos. But to be honest, I haven’t really noticed any of that… and I do use lens hoods with my vintage lenses, because some of them flare pretty wildly and actually have a build in lens hood.

@hy7968

10 ай бұрын

UV filters don’t really worsen the image quality that much but it can introduce way more flaring under bright lights

The disadvantage of UV filters is that you put a low quality piece of glass on an expensive piece of glass which would reduce the quality of the images...

Yesterday while shooting my friends dogs, we let them run around, few mins after, doggo smashed my lens hood while I was taking photos of the other dogs. Cool tip, use lens hood around happy unleashed dogs

Bro advising to damage lens without hood 😂😂

But another benefit to a good is if you drop the lens it can protect you filter threads from denting in

@stevenjohnson4283

10 ай бұрын

How is shattering/breaking glass of UV filter going to protect the front element, were you dropped as a baby?

When buying used lenses I try to get ones that come with a UV filter. I throw them away immediately. It's just reassuring that the person who owned this last was so neurotic about protecting their lens that they sacrificed their image quality significantly to do it.

I stepped in my strap of my canon camera, the 10 dollar piece of glass saved my 700 dollar lens

@AtomicDig

10 ай бұрын

Unless your lens fell directly over a sharp rock it would have probably been fine anyways. The front element of the lens is much more resistant than most uv filters. The filter is generally gonna break or scratch in situations where the front element just wouldn't

@chedrwastaken

10 ай бұрын

I dropped mine at a concert onto a brick floor, the Uv filter acted like a crumplezone on a car the only thing that happened to the lens was a small ding and I had to fix the zoom slider because it didn't like the impact

Weirdly- I always use a lens hood and I've been shooting longer than you've been alive. And of course, the front element always gets a protective filter.

I use the hood. I don't like the idea of putting glass in front of a lens that was designed without the addition of a filter in mind

Interesting that a UV filter, being a dielectric, will induce loss of light and sharpness. It may be a small amount but it is still measurable!

For this purpose i can highly recommend hoyas HD nano MK2 filters. They are chemically and thermally hardened and they will not break even when they get a really solid whack. The cheaper ones will

Wrong, UV filter negatively affects image quality as it’s not part of the original optical formulation and the different glass imparts different qualities - doesn’t matter if it’s a cheap or expensive filter. This was a non-issue back in the day but no longer the case with advanced higher resolution equipment today. Also the lens hoods fold back over the lens just fine so they take no extra space and they not only reduce lens flare and improve contrast in some situations, they are just better at protecting your lens overall.

Filter Will take some light and sharpness away does not matter how good and expensive he is. Also if you crack your filter or if he bends he will do more bad than good scratching the lens

I use both. I just reverse the lens hood to save space in my camera bag.

0:04 no i have not noticed

I protect the back of my UV filter by covering it with a lens

And you have me who let the lens hood on all my lenses all the time.. I don’t mind if it takes a bit more space in my bag since I have plenty of it

I used to keep UV filters on all my lenses. We're talking for 30 years lol. I spent the bucks on good ones, and know now no there are no good ones! They'll amplify all the issues you get without a hood (low contrast, glare, flare). I like flares too, but too many other issues that are very hard to fix in post (especially video). Better to go with no UV filters, and less hassle with filters that are actually needed.

My lens is so massive that it doesn’t maje a difference if i have a lens Hood on it. It still rakes up a full compartment of my camera bag. It’s the sigma 150-600mm c if anyone was wondering.

@user-co6ww2cm9k

10 ай бұрын

ok

Das gilt auch für Magerquark, Vorhautverengung und Quantenphysik.

ILY Anthony

You should make a video of shooting film

YEEEEES and No. I use Lens hoods ONLY for the protection factor. It creates a distance between me and a running dog for example. I shoot many dogs in action and I need protection. Using UV filters can also have a disadvantage though if you´re not know what you´re doing. Because I KNOW many photographers who are using 2.000$ lenses and then put a 5$ UV filter on. Which is semiproductive if you ask me.

Is it just me or others also use CPL outdoors? UV filters are not needed in newer cameras since sensors are UV protected.

You also gonna need a high quality uv filter to get the best quality

Bumps and scratches all good, but how about something slamming into your lens Like an apple lol or a basketball. You cleaned your filter with your shirt 😂😂😂 Your still my fav

I’ll stick with the lens hood. Having a 2-5 inch barrier between the lens and the outside world makes me feel better. Plus I get to shoot with the unobstructed premium glass I paid a mortgage for. BUT AS ALWAYS….. YOU DO YOU BOO!

I've a vintage lens w/ a hood which retracts as a 'forelense' hood of sorts: Tele Rokkor 135mm. Should manufarees use such mode... no space lost.

Use a high quality clear filter not a cheap uv filter.

bro missed harddddd with this one 💀

@spray_cheese

10 ай бұрын

?

How does a UV filter which need to be a $100 UV filter B+W or Hoya UV (O), going to protect your lens? If it falls and cracks the UV filter inertia will send the broken glass into the front element either scratching it or breaking it. Having a large lens hood on your lens and lens cap is the best protection if the lens is dropped the lens hood can take most of the impact.

Don't use Uv filters, it will ruin your image quality ,

If you can clearly see the reflections on the filter, it's not a very good filter 😅

Need to let your people know that some "protection" filters simply protect you from good images. Tiffen hasnt made a good slim UV protector in years. Cheap filters are bad.

I dont use any protection on my lenses, and they’re fine.

Haha finally you had explained why so perfect, next time someone complaint about the hood I just need to pull your video out. Great short as usual my mate!!

Still waiting for a dji air 3 review.

well, i use both...

you're potentially putting a low quality glass on top of your high quality glass.

Now you're getting twice as much flare by using a filter without a lens hood. Not too smart. And instead of using a UV filter use a *clear protective filter* of good quality, like those made by B+W.

Why are lens protectors still UV? That's redundant with the hot-mirror on the cell.

Never trust someonenwvo claims something but then had to pause and clean off somethings he says its not suppose to have.

why not both? genuine q

Lens hood isn’t going to do anything when you point the camera straight at the sun as in your photo 🫡

Pay loads for premium glass then attach poor quality glass over it, right.

lower the quality with a uv filter hahaha

Uv filter doesn’t do much

Lens hoods flip around for storage and don't make the lens any longer. Does he not know this?

lens hoods make your lens look bigger.

I do the same thing

No i have not!

Shit glass front of expensive glass😂

Ngl I cringed a little when he cleaned the filter with the t-shirt

He's going... to pause... several times... in every... sentence.

Oki doju

Actually both some cheap UV filters from Aliexpress for this same reason haha

Do you use a lens cap?

*wipes lens with shirt* All my lenses are protected from scratches

Wow what a terrible idea. Adding more flares to the lens lol

Did you clean your lens with a t-shirt???

Why would you put a cheap filter over quality glass? You might as well buy a cheap lens.

Bruh just turn the lens hood inside out

Anthony please review the Canon R8 in depth 🙏🏾

Wish lens makers would make integral lens caps built into the lens itself. Minolta did this in the early 90s, & it was brilliant. Having seperate lens caps is tech from over a century ago. Lens makers need to think outside the box more, especially on such a crucial piece of design.

@joshuamontgomery0

10 ай бұрын

I personally hated the built in hood.

@k-ozdragon

10 ай бұрын

@@joshuamontgomery0 Really? It didn't add any real additional bulk to the lens. You just flipped a switch & it closed. Most of the dirt, debris, & water I get on my lenses is from walking around. Putting on a lens cap & taking it off repeatedly is a pain. With the Minolta, you just slide a switch & you go from fully protected to shooting in half a second. Plus, no more losing or damaging lens caps. No more dust transfer from the cap due to it being in your pocket or bag. No more lost lens covers or wonky lanyards. Full time protection for your lens when not shooting. The list goes on. I find the integral lens cover far more practical than what we use now.