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Recommendations for Circular Polarizer & Variable ND filter

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Roland Wooster Senior Member • Posts: 2,371
Recommendations for Circular Polarizer & Variable ND filter

I switch between photo and video on my Z9 quite a bit, and I find switching my Circular Polarizer (used for photo) and a Variable ND (used for video to achieve 360-degree shutter angles) annoying.

Given that I'm also disappointed with the lack of a front filter thread, and inconsistent uniformity with my current Variable ND filter, I was looking at options and saw that some folks sell a single filter that does both CP and Var-ND - this could be really handy and eliminate all the filter switching, also having CP on the video would be great too.

However, I want to use the lens hood on my Nikon 24-70 F2.8 (filter size 82mm) and also want to be able to use the 82mm lens cap on the filter - I've not yet seen any design that would appear to work along with a lens hood, and fit a lens cap.

I'm finding that many of the variable ND filters either don't have front threads for the lens cap, or use one size up, e.g. 86mm, so the standard lens cap won't fit, and I don't want to have the hassle of different size caps, so I want to avoid those too, plus I suspect anything that's oversize won't work with the lens hood anyway.

Are there any Var-ND + CP 82mm filters that support using an 82mm lens cap? That would be a good starting point, even ignoring the lens hood aspect of it.

Otherwise, I guess if that's not an option, then I guess I'll just replace the Var ND that I have that I don't like (due to uniformity problems, and a lack of front filter threads). Although even limiting it to just a Var-ND, there seem to be rather few choices that support an 82mm thread and 82mm lens cap. The Urth Plus looks like it should work, but are there any other recommendations?

Thanks,

Roland.

Nikon Z9
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