A few days ago I stop by the local camera (the Camera Corner) store to pickup an extra lens cap for my Nikon. Carl has been a great help the last 6 months with some small projects so I fingered I would buy the lens cap from him. He was looking at my camera and exclaimed something to the effect, “great camera and very nice lens, but why are you destroying your image quality with the cheap UV lens filter”.
He was right I did have a cheap filter on the lens, but I never of it down grading my image quality, I always thought of the lens and never beyond it.
Good lens = good photo
Good lens, poor filter = ok photo
So, I left his shop with a new Rodenstock filter and a little wiser.