B W ultra slim filters=my worst buy!!!
One month ago I bought 5D,24-70 L,cards and B+W ultraslim filters (UV and cir. polarizer).
Few days later after I got them I went for 4 weeks travel (hitchhike and bus) around UK.
This was ultimate test for whole my new gear.I left my Eos3 at home and went completly digital.
Anyway, in this period I found that that ultraslim filters were my worst buy ever. That
cap in totally bad.Is soft, so IF YOU ARE NOT CAREFULL YOU SCRATCH FILTER BY PRESSING THE CAP!!!
So for example you cant put camera in the bag lens down because that will press cap and that will
scrastch this expensive filters. And another bug is that this cap is slipping down very easyli.
In my cca 9 years of photographing I lost the lens cap maybe once. Now, just after 4 weeks.
of owning 2 ultraslim filters I allready lost one.After while I found that is better not to use cap at all and have just lens hood.
So now,on the end of the day, I will send a complaining letter to BW that filters for more that 100dollars
have cap whitch is actually dangerous to the filter.That I needed to clean this filters in 4 weeks more times that another ones in a year.
I will ask for exchange, if not at least another cap so I can sell them on ebay and buy normal ones. On answer from B+W will depend if I will buy something from them again.
I know, that I should have done more research before buy them, but anyway that cap is unacceptably bad. I am sure that is no problem to make a hard cap.
The point of my post is to know your experience and opinion.Thank you
here are photos of that cap
http://tomas.rebelium.net/gallery/albums/album02/cap1.jpghttp://tomas.rebelium.net/gallery/albums/album02/cap2.jpg