This filter, if nothing else, helps keep my marriage on an even keel.

Now I won't rehash the old UV vs non-UV filter debate, but personally I don't really feel I need a UV filter on my DSLR lenses, and if I were the only person using my cameras I wouldn't bother at all as I'm extremely careful with all of my equipment. My wife, on the other hand...

Every time my wife takes out one of my cameras she treats it the same way she treats her sunglasses (lenses down on the dashboard of her car, jamming them in her pockets without a case or a second thought, smudges... just... everywhere. Oh, the humanity). When it comes to optical equipment she's history's greatest monster, a true menace to glass, but complaining about this to her will only ever end in a resentful argument.

So the solution? A high quality UV filter that will protect my lenses without reducing image quality. I've tried cheap filters in the past that I've ended up removing every time I take a shot because there's noticeable degradation in the results, but as this is a high quality filter I can't see any different in the final product with or without the filter. All I see is a clean, scratch- and fingerprint-free lens coming back to me safe and sound, and that's worth its weight in gold.