OT: Protection Filter Under Matte Box?

MH_Stevens wrote on 1/26/2008, 9:42 PM

Just getting my first Matte Box to go with the EX1 when it comes and I'm wondering if it is the right thing to put a thin 77mm screw-on UV protection filter on the camera before attaching the matte box. The EX1 will take a filter under the matte box if it is a thin one. I know the B+W works but B&H is out of stock else I would have got it anyway with the camera.

Comments

farss wrote on 1/26/2008, 10:47 PM

If you've got a matte box I can't see much point to adding a filter behind the box.

Bob.

Grazie wrote on 1/27/2008, 12:22 AM

Lens protection and one LESS MB tray not occupied. This last item should not be overlooked. Over the past 3 years of using a MB the need for a further tray to be added was all too obvious: Static-1x0.6ND, Static-1x0.9 ND, Rotator-1xPola. In this way I can now zap-up to about 2.4 of ND, have my IRIS wide open. The etra tray was was added by the manufacturer - True Lens Services here in the UK. Great firm.

And yes, as MBs are a generic piece of kit I can answer this one, and no, I don't posses an EX-1 . . .

Serena wrote on 1/27/2008, 12:23 AM

I keep a filter on the lens, just for protection. Easily removed when not wanted and I don't always have filters in the matte box; the MB does more than just hold filters! Also a 77mm Hoya filter costs a lot less than a 4 x 4 filter. So I tend to use the MB only for grads and effects filters.

ushere wrote on 1/27/2008, 3:49 AM

i leave a uv screwed on under the mb, which i use with a pol. or graded nd.

leslie