lostarts Loc: Woodbridge, VA

So far, I've spent nearly $60 and more than a month trying to find a filter adapter for my Canon PowerShot SX60.

I bought several adapters from camera shops through Amazon and ebay and finally, the adapter that Canon says is the correct one for my camera directly from Canon. All of them were excellent quality, some even better and cheaper than Canon brand.

But they're all exactly the same, and they all won't go on the camera.

When I place them on the lens, they seem to fit exactly and be perfect, but then you have to turn it to fasten it, and all of them have a little blob of plastic or metal that prevents it from turning.

Does anyone know of a standard bayonet adapter that will fit on my camera and allow me to use filters?

My first impulse was to return all of them except the Canon one (which is plastic) and use a small, sharp knife to remove the blob that keeps it from turning. But, if I mess it up and ruin it, I can't return it.

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Lostarts, on my Canon sx-30 there is a 58mm thread on front of the lens that accepts any 58mm filter.

hcmcdole

Have you looked at any online videos on how to attach these? According to this video you need to turn it on and zoom out a little to attach the adapter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHRexaK_k_g

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

I just watched this you tube video. This appears to be the remedy. I'm deciding on the SX60 too. I hoping the OP reads your thread. Thanks.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Next question - Can you pack the camera away with the adapter on it or do you have to remove the adapter first?

lostarts Loc: Woodbridge, VA

What I'm saying is that once you put it in place (just like the video shows), you CAN'T turn it because there are little plastic things in place that keep it from turning. I'm saying it's made wrong, and it won't work.

I had an SX10, which came with a lens hood that fits on this, too. I was able to successfully put the lens hood on and remove it on both cameras several times. It works the same way this adapter should. Believe it or not, I do know how to do this.

An adapter that's made right has sort of a tiny button on one side of each of the sections that slide under the lip on the camera. It keeps you from turning it too far. The problem is that they put one of these stops on both sides, so you can put in place, but you CAN'T turn it either left or right.

Believe me, I'd really rather discover I've been stupid and it does work so I can use all the filters I just bought! But the lens hood goes on perfectly using the instructions in the video (which I already knew), but the adapter does NOT!

BTW, I LOVE my new SX60! I've used Canon cameras before, and almost all I have to do is think about what I want the camera to do and it does it! Every other camera I've had before has limits. This one doesn't have any practical limits that I've found. If you choose this camera, you're going to love it!

Unless you want to put a filter on it.

I was hoping someone would say something like "Try the adapter that comes with the lens hood: The FA-DC67B instead of the FA-DC67A!" Or "There's a bayonet mount available for Pentax that fits perfectly!"

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Pretty sure you need to turn the ring past those little "bumps".

Those are there to keep the adapter in place, to prevent it from just easily spinning off the opposite direction. So I wouldn't be too quick to remove them.

After those plastic "nubs" wear a little from being installed a couple times, it will probably get easier to turn it on and off.

lostarts Loc: Woodbridge, VA

I'm going to try to see if I can explain this better.

In the top image, there's a lip on the bottom section of the part of the adapter that you can see. On the right edge of that there's a little cylinder shape. That little cylinder keeps it from turning past a certain point in one direction.

On the bottom image, you can see the other side of the same lip. At the left of it, it has a cylinder, too. That prevents it from being turned in the other direction. Sorry, the keyboard is in focus instead of the cylinder and the lip.

But these two little shapes keep it from turning in either direction once it's in place and ready to be turned.

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lostarts Loc: Woodbridge, VA

I'm planning to leave the adapter on it along with a filter holder from Cokin. I realize I'll have to treat it gently.

lostarts Loc: Woodbridge, VA

Yeah, I know. There's a nub on one side of each lip to keep it from turning in the wrong direction.

But there's also another nub on the other side of each nub to keep it from turning in the other direction, too.

hcmcdole

I have the SX60 too but no filter adapter - just the lens hood which probably has the same arrangement - nubs are to lock it in place after rotating one quarter turn. There is some resistance when you start turning the lens hood but after it gets going it snaps in place (either direction but I think the preferred direction is clockwise to put it in place and CCW to take it off).

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

I have the factory hood for my SX60HS and the adapter ring for filters. The hood must come off to put the adapter on. The adapter is hard to put on, you have to grasp the extended lens and twist the adapter ring hard until it locks in place. Kind of a pain if you ask me, but if the SX60HS is your main camera and you want to use specialty filters on it, you have to deal with the adapter ring. I personally don't like the idea of the plastic adapter ring and metal rimmed filters but that the way it is. Since the SX60HS is not my main camera, I rarely use a filter on it, I prefer to keep the factory hood in place.

lostarts Loc: Woodbridge, VA

What's the number on your adapter ring? There are two it could possibly be. One ends in A and one ends in B, so that letter is all I need.

I suspect that it's B, and I've only tried the A version so far.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

I'll have to get back to you on that. The adapter along with filters, batteries and charger are in the SX60HS's camera bag and I can't find it here at home so it must be at our weekend place. I've now got a dead battery and the charger and spare batteries are 35 miles away. No big deal, am planning on going there later today anyway. But that bring up my biggest complain about the SX60HS, the less than DSLR like battery life, but then it is a much smaller battery doing the same amount of work, or even more considering the EVF, as one of my DSLR's.

Doowopa Loc: Connecticut

I'm guessing your afraid to force it when turning I did the same thing when I got mine.
keep turning passed the the resistance it will snap in.
It locks perfectly and I put it on with the camera off don't have to extend the lens.
It won't fall off.

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