I took this picture of beautiful countryside through a hotel window in an airport hotel in Tokyo. I used a 24mm lens, and there is no evidence that there was glass between me and the outdoor landscape. You can shoot through glass without an delterioius effect if the glass is clean. In addition, it's important to shoot straight through it such that the lens axis is a perpendicular as possible to the plane of the window. As soon as you angle the camera so the lens axis is oblique -- i.e. you shoot downward -- then the image becomes degraded because the thickness of the glass lowers the optical quality.
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