You seemed to miss my point. The filter cost $40 to replace
No, it rather is YOU who missed my point. Sticking a $40 filter in front of what you claimed is your $2k lens" is just outright insanity.
Either you buy a cheap lens and you don’t care enough about image quality or its front element to put any cheap piece of glass in front of it or you buy a very expensive less in which case you especially do not want to degrade its potential IQ by dumping a cheap piece of glass in front of it.
You cannot win, the $40 cheap filter has no proper use case whether you have a cheap or an expensive lens.
You seemed to miss my point. The filter cost $40 to replace, which I do when it needs replacing.
No, it rather is YOU who missed my point. Sticking a $40 filter in front of what you claimed is your $2k lens" is just outright insanity.
Either you buy a cheap lens and you don’t care enough about image quality or its front element to put any cheap piece of glass in front of it or you buy a very expensive less in which case you especially do not want to degrade its potential IQ by dumping a cheap piece of glass in front of it.
You cannot win, the $40 cheap filter has no proper use case whether you have a cheap or an expensive lens.