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Please, a suggestion for a polarizing filter
Dec 18, 2012 21:58:28 #
Country's Mama wrote:
Ok so avoid the aluminum rings. Both the name brands you listed have some filters with aluminum rings. Hoya has at least two with aluminum rings one at each end of the price scale. And B+W has many aluminum rings. Or are you saying the cheap aluminum rings are bad.
The cheap aluminum rings on the Zeikos filters are not top quality. The Hoya filters I have, have very good threading on the rings- no problems.
Dec 18, 2012 21:58:42 #
Country's Mama wrote:
Ok so avoid the aluminum rings. Both the name brands you listed have some filters with aluminum rings. Hoya has at least two with aluminum rings one at each end of the price scale. And B+W has many aluminum rings. Or are you saying the cheap aluminum rings are bad.
There are MANY grades of aluminum. That which is used for pop cans is far different than that which is used for aircraft frames. Cheap filters use cheap (soft) aluminum. Quality filters use much better grades of aluminum which machines cleaner and more accurately. B+W still uses brass for its F-PRO series of filters, which is by far the best, but also the most expensive option. I have one B+W F-PRO CP filter and it is actually a joy to screw onto a lens, so smooth!
Dec 19, 2012 06:10:43 #
MT Shooter wrote:
quote=Kestrel1029 quote=MT Shooter B+W and Hoya ... (show quote)
Good morning MT I have never seen a rubber lens hood, where did you find it?
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Dec 19, 2012 06:39:51 #
Got it. All of the advice has been helpful. I will choose my filter carefully having spent some more time saving money for one of the brands you recommended. My instincts told me that this would be the case. Thank you all.
Dec 19, 2012 06:45:16 #
Dec 19, 2012 07:18:07 #
howdysmom wrote:
I would like to purchase some filters for my lenses, starting with my Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for which I would want a polarizing filter. I know they vary greatly in price; is there a decent one in the $50 range? Also, can someone explain how the step-up and step-down rings work? Is that the way to go when a person has a variety of mm sizes? Any help with the filter question would be great.
I did some reasearch and then got a couple of Marumi polarizers. Taking MT's advice, I got the step-up rings so I can use the same polarizer on different lenses. So why did I buy two? So I can use two cameras on one shoot - one tele and one W/A.
Dec 19, 2012 07:19:42 #
Croce
Loc: Earth
MT Shooter wrote:
B+W and Hoya make about the best CPL filters. As for size, buy a filter to fit your largest lens and buy step-up rings to adapt that filter to your smaller lenses. You will never have vignetting issues that way and you'll save a lot of money on filters.
MT, wise me up please. We both live in the Mountain Time Zone. I get up at or before 4 am every day. Your posts usually appear very near the beginning of a subject. When I post it is usually on page 5. How you do dat man? This post says you posted at 2 minutes to 10 last night. Could that be correct? Mine says I posted at 7:19 this morning. It is actually 5:19 so I guess the posting hours are according to EST. I have asked admin but have not given an answer. :?
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Dec 19, 2012 07:36:46 #
Croce wrote:
quote=MT Shooter B+W and Hoya make about the best... (show quote)
The time question has come up before, and I think we agreed that the times listed here are east coast, since the site is on the east coast, or the Atlantic Southeast.
Dec 19, 2012 08:02:16 #
Croce
Loc: Earth
jerryc41 wrote:
quote=Croce quote=MT Shooter B+W and Hoya make a... (show quote)
Yes, I can see that Jerry, but how did MT get to post on this thread at midnight EST, last night???? The UHH usually arrives on my doorstep between 3 and 4 am MST or 5 and 6 am EST. Perhaps I should ask MT what his usual reading and posting times are in Montana.
Dec 19, 2012 08:14:19 #
washy
Loc: Dorset UK
Hi MT who/what are B/H that all you snappers relate to in the USA ? Do you think we in the UK can buy from them?
Hows your weather? Ours is damp poor light miserable low cloud december day.
Hows your weather? Ours is damp poor light miserable low cloud december day.
Dec 19, 2012 08:15:59 #
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Dec 19, 2012 08:26:10 #
Croce
Loc: Earth
washy wrote:
Sorry I meant B/W.
They are a branch of Schneider optics in Berlin. You should have no problem finding them in the UK.
Dec 19, 2012 08:27:13 #
Dec 19, 2012 08:33:11 #
Croce wrote:
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If MT's posting time is listed as just before midnight, that would be just before 10:00 PM EST, right - as you said above?
Dec 19, 2012 09:01:33 #
MT..What brand of hood do you use? I was aware they made a collapsible rubber lens hood....? Can you post some links?
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