A simple filter to protect the lense would probably be a UV filter, they dont do so much but you can use it as a protection. But i can recommend you to buy a Polarizing filter and/or graduated Neutral density filter, both of them are very useful. If i had access to my own computer i could upload some example pictures...

Btw yes you will need a 77mm one, but investing in some nice filters is worth the money.

This post was edited by SeaBas on Nov 22 2008 03:53pm

Yea one thing you should remember with so big filter size is that its worth more to use better quality filter on those, because better quality filters are thinner. Thinner filter help on big filter size more because when u look at the corners from the middle of the lens it will look more thicker from there, and normal quality filter might not look so good on the corners.

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And yeah, I wanna know where 77 mm came from. Why not 80 or w/e. I dunno where 77 came from



Okay. I'll consider the UV Filter. Hehe, you are right, they are higher up in price. I at least want one to protect it and I'll worry about other filters later on. After all, this is already an expensive enough lens for me as it is haha. I'm really new to filters and such so I don't know what kinds of effects they give off. I know I do like my polarizer one I have now with the kit lens.



I'm not sure I quite understand? A UV filter is just an ordinary filter, or are there better UV filters out there? Or are you referring this to the other filters? lol Confused!



This post was edited by chantal7 on Nov 22 2008 05:09pm

im referring to eny kind of filters, there are different quality ones. From hoya there are 3 different quality uv filters if i remember right

when I bought my UV filter I chose a more expensive one because its multi coated and blahblah according to the manufacturer its better at reducing lens flare and so on



i think you have to ask the manufacturer of the lenses that question lol I mean my lens needs a 67 mm filter which I believe is a bit wider than your 18-55 kit lens. Maybe it has something to do with the shorter focal length.

Oh okay. Are they really that different? I mean the UV filters.

heh hope you dont mind me trying to answer that question for ya

I believe different UV filters block different amount of UV light...
I saw some reviews on a bunch of UV filters somewhere and according to that review some more expensive UV filters are more effective blocking UV

you need to scroll down a bit...
http://photo.net/equipment/filters/

This post was edited by Futurama on Nov 23 2008 12:03am

I dont think you will nitice the difference on normal lenses, but with bigger filter size or with really good lenses you might see a bit of difference.

@futurama those filters usually say how much uv light they filter and usually its the same amount on same brand, even on more expencive filters. What costs more on better filters is just how thin they are, some brands might miss some coatings on some of theyr filters, but imo hoya and kenkos all filters have same coating. I suggest buying kenko filter instead of hoya since they come from same factory and are just assembled in different factory and kenko is bit cheaper.

This post was edited by Antichrist- on Nov 23 2008 05:52am

ah ok didnt know that lol so I guess Hoya HMC super UV(0) means no uv at all would be let through using this filter? hmm I have never seen or heard of kenko before but I will look for it the next time I buy filters thanks!

More than a month later, I have it now!