The best $20 you’ll ever spend. Protect expensive equipment by adding a protective filter to your lens.
Camera equipment is expensive, especially telephoto and fast lenses, those 2.8 beauties advisers long for and photographers salivate over. But all the precious dollars are wasted if a few pennies aren’t dropped on one additional item: a filter.
It’s the best Andrew Jackson you’ll ever fork over. A clear protective filter should a mandatory purchase. Screwed on to the front of the lens, it protects the glass–the most important and expensive part of the camera.
Specifically, a filter protects the lens from dust, scratches and moisture. But most importantly, it prevents serious damage to the lens.
Kids are kids. Accidents happen. Cameras fall off desks, students bang lenses into doorways, an errant ball smashes into the lens. Those jarring crashes are less jarring when a filter protects the lens glass. Cracking a $20 filter is better than ruining an expensive lens.
One final tip: Camera accidents sometimes bend the filter making it challenging to take off. Pop by a local camera shop and they’ll help you remove the damaged filter.
