How to Protect Olympus Camera Lenses

Each of my Olympus camera lenses has it's own hood, as seen in the picture below. This hood doesn't directly protect the lens. However, it does protect it if you drop your camera. Without the hood, dropping your camera would result in an impact force that not only can break the outer glass or the frame of the lens, but also move the internal components.

The hood helps by reducing the impact forces. As you will notice, the hood isn't as hard as the camera lens body. Thus, it softens the impact.

Different types of filters have different uses. Some prevent UV rays from hitting the image sensor, some soften the lightening, and others add color. Regardless of what you want to use, you should always attach a filter to your lens.

This is the best protection you can offer for your lens. It prevents anything from scratching any of your Olympus camera lenses, which saves you much money.

The best general purpose option for your filter is a UV filter, which prevents UV rays from hitting your sensor. UV rays do not add anything to your image, and can in fact damage the coloring.

These filters are much cheaper than your lens. The extremely cheap ones aren't great quality, and may distort your image slightly, but the good quality ones aren't expensive.

Not much can be said about this. Your lens comes with a cap! Use it at all times!

Remember, don't be a fool. Protect your tool!