Good Pictures Start With A Good Lens
The most important part on the outside of your camera is the lens. It’s a pivotal part of your digital camera, and one of the determining factors on how good a picture you can get.
Now if you really want to hear a heart-breaking sound to strike pain in a photographer’s heart, it’s that loud crack heard when a digital camera lens hits something hard and breaks. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got a beginners digital camera or a professional quality camera, a broken lens is a disaster.
Scratch Those Perfect Pictures
Less dramatic but equally disturbing is finding a big scratch on the lens. Of the two, this is the more likely to happen. It may not seem as bad, but it’s going to keep you from getting a nice clear picture when every shot you take has a blurred area where the scratch is located on the lens.
Either way, your pictures aren’t going to look too good with a lousy lens, and either way, it’s an expensive repair or a new camera.
Basics of Digital Photography – Prevent Lens Damage
Fortunately, there’s a digital photography secret that’s an easy and relatively cheap way to prevent scratched or broken lens.
Get a UV filter.
While a UV filter doesn’t really do all that much for your pictures, it’s a positively fantastic way to protect your digital camera lens. It’s like a bulletproof vest, and when the outside environment takes a shot at the lens on your trusty digital camera, the UV filter protects the lens from damage.
Not all cameras can use a UV filter, but if your digital camera will, don’t delay. Buy a UV filter and keep it on the camera! It’s a whole lot cheaper to replace a scratched or cracked UV filter than it is to buy a new lens for your camera.
Your camera lens is hard to replace. Keep it safe.
