Filters...
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Originally Posted by mollydog
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I would buy the best lens you can afford, and don't forget some filters....ND,
polarizer ect.
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Mollydog - I've NEVER disagreed with anything you say (rare for me, honestly) - except now!
Leave the filters at home! Apart from a UV filter, which should stay on your lense permanently, as a protector, more than anything - LEAVE THE FILTERS AT HOME.
Some reasons:
1. Don't need them (ok - maybe polarizing - but how many times do you need that?). Use photoshop.
2. Each time, you remove a filter, and screw on another one - you're giving dust and crap a chance to get onto the lense. You ARE going to be changing filters in the field... so you're exposed to the elements.
3. More things to pack = more things to break, etc, etc, etc.
I challenge any photographer (I knoooow this is revolutionary talk for the purist among you), to bring a filtered photograph, that I can not reproduce EXACTLY in Photoshop. 
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