Hole in one.
I know that Sony/Konica/Minolta have some very, very good glass. By putting a cheapie UV filter in the way, you're adding more material for light to pass through. I guess if you spend big, you can buy filters that have negligible effects on the final image, but, most of these are cheap Hoya filters that do nothing for the image, except soften/degrade it.
I've had my lenses underneath waterfalls in your beautiful country, in the ocean spray and sand at the beach. Nothing a wipe down won't fix. I just look at them as something to be used. If they get ruined (highly unlikely, particularly with Canon's weathersealed lenses), I'll just buy another one in due course.
Rally photography is a different beast with stones and what not being hurled about. For this, I don't have an answer, other than expensive filters!
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Originally Posted by ZeroID
Just another layer of glass in the way H ?
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