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Originally Posted by GEli
Front elements are alarmingly tough by themselves and in the case of massive trauma, such as a drop, the UV filter will do nothing to protect the lens.
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I've dropped my bodies three or four times, and had the UV filter take the damage instead of my lens each time. Sure, if a piece of iron were to go right through your lens it wouldn't help, but in most of the cases I've seen, blows that break lenses comes to the edge of the lens, where the filter's ring will take the blow instead of your lens.
If you don't believe me, here's one of the filters, and the picture just happened to be taken with the lens that it saved:
I believe that was the least damaged of the four that I've broken. The first one had a pretty nasty deformation on it's ring - I wish I'd kept that one. The last one was reduced to shards of glass and a metal ring. But it's the reason I could shoot the baptism that I needed to shoot this week.
Those are just my own experiences. I've seen many more during my time at photo labs and camera shops.