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step-down rings or new filters?

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
OP stevet1 Senior Member • Posts: 1,300
Re: step-down rings or new filters?

guinness2 wrote:

What filters do you have and want to convert ? 10-16 mm difference seems to me way too much ?

guinness2,

I have one set (a UV, CPL and  3-stop ND) for a 58mm lens, and one 49mm set for a 50mm 2.8 lens.

The 58 filters are Tiffen, and the 49mm are Hoya.

The Hoya are probably better quality huh?

Now that I think of it, I guess that leads me to a second question. If I step-down from a 67mm lens to a 58 or 49mm filter, do I lose any field of view?

Are the diameters of various lenses different from each other? Is an 18mm, or a 100mm  field of view the same no matter what lens you use?

Steve Thomas

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