Review on 💎 Enhance Clarity & Protect Your Lens with Hoya 67mm UV(C) Haze Multicoated Filter by Derek Cage

As a professional photographer, I find the benefits of a glass filter for any lens with a threaded filter ring overwhelmingly positive. It's too easy for me to damage the surface of a camera lens, whether it's from a fingerprint, dust, raindrops, or unfortunate physical contact with a hard surface. The addition of a removable piece of glass offers tremendous protection from all of this and can be swapped out if needed, while the front of your lens cannot. I try not to clean the main surface of my lenses more than is absolutely necessary to avoid microscopic scratches on the coatings. I'd rather delete the clear filter. For my professional and semi-professional equipment, I use Nikon neutral colored glass (no UV filter). They're expensive and it doesn't matter what brand of camera they're used on, Nikon filters are among the best. I don't know why true neutral color filters cost so much more, probably because they are considered a specialty item. The reason I don't choose UV filters is because I don't want anything to affect my images other than what I'm creating. I'm not against UV filters, I find that they have a very minimal and subtle effect, acceptable for almost all ordinary photos. More important than a UV or clear coat is the presence of a multi-coating and the right choice of frame (thin or standard) for the lens used. I recently bought a Sony DSC-HX300/B 20MP 50x Optical Image Stabilizer zoom bridge digital camera for family/entertainment activities and was planning to buy a UV filter soon. Today, after only having the camera for a few weeks, I accidentally bumped the lens (lightly) against the edge of some plastic sports equipment. It left marks on the lens and my heart sank at the thought that I had broken the lens or at least damaged the lens coating. Luckily I didn't do either, the lens cloth removed the stain. Within 5 minutes I ordered this filter which had a pleasant discount in my favor. I chose Hoya because I respect the brand (it's known for high quality medical imaging) and because it has a multi-layer coating and a thin frame (important because the camera has a very wide zoom angle. The lens is ideal for the HX300 and in several parallel tests, with and without the filter in place, the image quality didn't degrade.I took a few landscape shots with a potential sun flare, a few color macros, and a few night shots with horribly poor street lighting, which could have caused serious problems with uncoated or poorly covered filters and with this particular camera I had absolutely no negative results.