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What size filters would you get for an RF kit?

Started 10 months ago | Polls thread
Karl_Guttag Senior Member • Posts: 1,883
Re: What size filters would you get for an RF kit?

Texchappy wrote:

If you were buying filters (ND, circular polarizer, etc) for your RF lenses, what size filter thread would you get? Especially considering future lens purchases?

This question is highly dependent on the way you use your equipment and budget. If you are really going to buy the high-end L lenses the budget should not be that big an issue.

You might get better advice if you laid out what you are likely to buy and use and how much use the various filters.

Polarizing filters are a bit of a special case. How much do you use a circular polarizer? Generally, I would not use a circular polarizer or variable neutral density filter (top-notch ones have less of an X problem) with a very wide-angle lens (aka 14/15 to 35mm).

You could certainly go with the 82mm and then get a step-down ring for filters you might use but then they don't work with lens hoods (you can get an extra lens cap that would fit). I would only go with the step-down ring approach for filters you would rarely use but might want to use occasionally.

Personally, I mostly use ND filters for the purpose of using a slow shutter speed and I use fixed ones to avoid problems with polarization effects. I thought I could use a step-down ring but then decided the inability to use the hoods with them was too big a drawback.

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