So, Stu, what's the solution? Is a UV filter good enough in general, or does one break out the 81A filter?Stu :) said:
my photography further. Even learned how to print color. By that time, I had upgraded my equipment to a minolta SRT 101 with a 58mm f/1.4 lens. Sold my first photo that year. I took some shots of a "Sit In" (remember those) which a small news paper liked enough to pay me five bucks for. Kept the paper route though. During High School, I joined the school newspaper. Became photo editor next semester. Great class. Got my english mostly out of the way by taking and developing pictures! How cool is that! Got side line passes to all the school sports I wanted to go to and a few I didn't but thats how it goes. During that time I was washing dishes for my film & paper and gas money. Funny thing, the cook was a Brooks student. Plus I picked up a little side cash doing cast photos for a theater group. Barely paid for my materials so it was hard to stay intrested. Took more photography in the Junior College with an eye for going to Brooks in Santa Barbara. That never happened. So I bagged at a super market for a spell until my clavical was broken by the seat belt in a automobile wreck. After about 4 months of healing I went looking for another job and was hired at a tool and die shop. Started out doing production but later learned tool making. Which lead to a machinist position at a company making computer controlled engraving machines. Computers excited me so I bought one; A new Apple IIe and learned how to use it and to program it in basic. Took more JC courses in programming and most of the core courses for engineering. I also picked up a side line as a computer lab tutor. Which led to networking and the internet which evolved to my current job as a Network Security Specialist. So I configure routers, firewalls and hunt for weirdness on our LAN plus all sorts of other geek type things. Oh and another child hood dream, I learned to fly which I also liked doing but soon realized that I was not high enough on the economic food chain to afford enough of it to be safe unless I taught it. So I kept after it long enough to become a flight instructor. But IT geek is what pays the bills. Having done all that, I remembered how much I liked photography and so about 3 years ago I revived an old passion. My old Minolta had seen better days and now I could afford Nikon and some of those Nikkors I lusted for in the 70s. I even went back to class at JC to study advanced lighting. Reflectors, filters, studio lights, soft boxes, that sort of thing. Had not done that before. I am here because I got intrested in rangefinder cameras and during my research surfed across this site one day and book marked it. So when I have time, I get out and snap a few with a RF (I choose the Olympus 35 SP and a Yashica Lynx 14e) I am finding that I carry the Oly a lot and only get out the Nikkors when I want to use something besides a FFL RF.