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step-down rings or new filters?

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
Dunlin Senior Member • Posts: 2,611
Re: step-down rings or new filters?

Steve, you'll probably experience quite heavy vignetting at the short end of your to-be 18-135mm lens. Especially with the 49mm filters. It might be different if it was an EF lens (full-frame), but it's not, it's an EF-S lens (APS-C).

Out of interest, what filters do you use? ND, Polariser? I currently only use UV filters, and am planning on getting some at some point.

Both my current lenses are 58mm, but I plan on getting the canon ef-s 10-18mm at some point, which has a 67mm filter thread. I don't know if I should buy filters that are too large for my current lenses, and get a step-up ring or just buy 58mm filters, and upgrade them later.

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