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Powershot Lens Filters

Started Feb 26, 2020 | Questions thread
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Re: Powershot Lens Filters

Charlie BRM wrote:

You can be inexpensive push-on filter adapters. The one I have is from GOJA (58mm) for a SX50 HS and I just saw one this morning on Amazon.

Anything I write here is from my SX50 perspective.

The SX50 is an entirely different camera which is designed to take filters via a bayonet adapter. I doubt this applies to the SX500 but am happy to be corrected if it is.

The face of the camera lens has a plastic ring with 2 gaps in the "lip". The adapter goes on with tabs into those gaps. You gently push the adapter in and then give it a quarter turn to set it. The outside face of the adapter has your "new" female threads.

If you don't crank down the filter threads too hard you shouldn't have any trouble un-screwing the filter later and the adapter stays on the camera. Mine is plastic for this very reason. Some people bought metal ones and they seized on to the filter threads. The other scenario is the adapter and filter come off the camera together and you deal with separating them off camera. Just remember it is a low force quarter turn and with handling it might work its way off the camera while you're handling it. No bueno.

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