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ND400 solutionby ~AndyMumford

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To cut down on vignetting and the amount of stuff I have to screw onto the lens for shooting landscapes, I've removed the ND400 filter from it's housing and inserted it directly into a spare Lee filters adaptor ring.
This means I don't have to screw in the ND400 and then screw in the adaptor ring on top.
It removes vignetting completely at 17mm (by cutting down on how far the filter holder projects out from the lens) and is one less thing to screw in/off when trying to put filters on quickly.

It really really works a charm.

*DimensionSeven Oct 7, 2010

Yeah, I've seen this post before (and I'm still excited by the idea). 2 short questions: is this a regular or a wide angle adaptor? (If regular, can it be done with the wide angle adopter?)
And the other: how big was the Hoya? 77mm?
Thanks again!

~AndyMumford Oct 11, 2010

This is just a regular adaptor, and yeah, the Hoya and the adaptor are 77mm

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~Colin-Moore Sep 12, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

Great idea

~saeedesign Sep 11, 2009 Professional Photographer

thanks for the tip but i really wonder how you were able to remove its frame without breaking the filter???

~AndyMumford Sep 11, 2009

The filter is pretty strong..it's the housing that you have more chance of breaking.
A couple of years ago I actually dropped the filter on a rock and it fell into 3 parts. The glass, the housing, and a kind of wire/spring that seperated the glass filter from the housing. I'm not sure if that weakened the spring in anyway, because that's how I removed it. I used a screwdriver (being very careful not to scratch the glass coating) to pop the wire/spring out, and then the filter just fell out

~saeedesign Sep 11, 2009 Professional Photographer

him thanks again... ill try that

~Apolic Sep 9, 2009 Photographer

You showed me this before, and the same thoughts came up how do you position the Grad filters with this system? Cause it's so hard to see through the nd glass..

~AndyMumford Sep 9, 2009

Same was as before Roel.
It's always been impossible to see through the viewfinder with the ND400 in place (which housing I had the filter in) so the process has always been; compose, position the grad filters, remove the filter holder with the grads still in place being careful not to move them screw in the ND400, replace the filter holder again being careful not to move the grads themselves shoot.

It's exactly the same process, but now I don't have to screw in the ND400 and then screw in the filter adaptor ring...because they are the same thing

~Apolic Sep 12, 2009 Photographer

Thanks for the explanation Andy. When i receive my kit too I might give this a try. Although I don't use my ND400 that often.

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