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Is it possible to buy some sort of reducer set and just buy one large circular polariser?
If so, is this a good or bad idea?
I'm looking at buying a good quality polariser, but if I get one for every lens, then it is going to get expensive.


Thank you.
 
I think you'd be better off choosing your lenses more carefully - all but one of mine are 77mm thread diameter (the other having no front filter thread at all...), meaning I only have to buy one size of filter...
 
you can buy adaptors on ebay for instance, to get a 77mm filter to fit a 67mm thread

i guess you could step them if needed, 52-55, 55-62 and so on but you may lose some quality
 
I got a 67mm - 72mm Stepping Ring from Premier Ink & Photographic so i could use my polarising filter and P type filter holder on two lenses if that helps :)

http://www.premier-ink.co.uk
 
In that situation I'd look at a slot-in CPL instead of a screw-in CPL. For example, get a Cokin Filter Holder and just buy adapter rings for the different diameter lens filter sizes that you require. I used a Cokin P filter system with both 52mm and 77mm filters. :)
 
I use a Lee holder with a 105mm ring on the front. It does mean buying a 105mm CPL though (expensive) and it's hardly compact for walking around.
 
Thanks guys. That has given me some options.

I do hope to have every lens with 77mm thread one day.:)
 
68lbs said:
I use a Lee holder with a 105mm ring on the front. It does mean buying a 105mm CPL though (expensive) and it's hardly compact for walking around.
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Thats the set up I have aswell, although not the cheapest it also means that you can use ND grads and the such likes.
 
I tend to use a 77mm C-Pol and step down to 67mm lenses.

I have a 105mm C-Pol which I will be using with a Lee system, once I find a 105mm ring

The Cokin P164 C-Pol is good value, as the rings are cheap. That'll go up to about 86mm down to about 52mm.
 
I have screw in pols for a few different diameters. The major benefit of going down that route is that I can use the supplied hoods on all the lenses rather than screw in compromises or no hood at all. The disadvantages are cost of several filters, fiddliness of adjusting the pols down the neck of the hood and carrying 3 boxes rather than 2 (one for a pol and one for a few stepping rings).
 
using a step down ring and a hood is fiddly and/or impossible.

i run a 77-72mm ring and it just about screws in with the hood in place but its a complete pain in the behind.
 
Johnny Thunder said:
Is it difficult using the CPL with a hood fitted?
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Not too bad on the 24-70 and 70-200. Harder on the 70-300 and I haven't got one for the 150-500. Biggest problem is hands like hams! If I have time, I find it easiest to adjust the pol then fit the hood.
 
Thanks for the advice everyone.

This really is a pain. I've only recently got my D300. I have the 16-85 which is a 67mm thread. Also the 50mm 1.8 which is 52mm.
Tomorrow, work permitting, I am going to buy the 70-300 which is also 67mm. I was hoping to hold out for the 70-200f2.8 but not
having a bit of reach is really bugging me now.
I do hope to replace my full range with 14-24, 24-70 and 70-200 f2.8's which are all the same size, but that will take a while.
I think I will just go for a 67mm CPL for now.


Cheers guys.:thumbs:
 
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