Down sides to using a lens filter reducer?
garyrhook wrote: Do you mean step-down rings to put a smaller-diameter filter onto a larger-diameter lens?
Yes, potential vignetting. Depends upon the lens size, filter size, and sensor size.
If you mean step up ones then the only potential down side is not being able to use your lens hood in certain shooting conditions. I use step up rings quite often, I do not own any step down.
Joves wrote:
garyrhook wrote: Do you mean step-down rings to put a smaller-diameter filter onto a larger-diameter lens?
Yes, potential vignetting. Depends upon the lens size, filter size, and sensor size.
If you mean step up ones then the only potential down side is not being able to use your lens hood in certain shooting conditions. I use step up rings quite often, I do not own any step down.
Oh Yeah the lens hood is going to be an issue. If you are going to be a serious filter user maybe you want to think about a matt box system that can easily swap our filters.
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