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Unless you're shooting in a place with a lot of dust or the likelihood of liquids splashing is high, UV/clear filters are a waste of time and money. They have the potential to degrade your image quality through distortion and flare, and if you want to protect your lens, you're much better off using a good, rigid (not rubber) lens hood instead. That way you protect the front end of your lens as well as help retain contrast while minimizing lens flare. There are some exceptions, such as with wide-angle lenses that have particularly shallow or nonexistent lens hoods. I have a dedicated hood on my Nikon 24mm f/2, but it's also very shallow, so I also have a multicoated Heliopan UV filter on it.
UV filters and the like are one of the biggest scams heisted upon the photography market.
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