I got to this place about a year ago and realised the need for a matt box.

I have 2 adaptors for the matt box:

1/- 58mm

2/- 80mm for the WD

This is THE way to get pola AND a way to mount several filters at once.

Keith - you weren't suggesting pola in post? You weren't suggesting extra ND straights or grads and openning up the iris in post to get that extra DoF . .were you? Nah! You couldn't have meant that?

Sometimes, just sometimes you gotta purchase that which you want/need to actually GET that which you aren't getting!

Grazie

I was suggesting soft filtering in post, the cam has a built-in ND. A matte box will work with the WA lens?

"A matte box will work with the WA lens?" - Yup! I use an adaptor that takes it over the 80mm - great stuff!

G

What matte box? How much?

Keith - I got the Kestrel 16:9 bellows. You get a 58mm and a 80 mm adaptor.


Here yah goes!

http://www.truelens.co.uk/matte/kestrel.htm


Grazie

They only mention the XL1, and not the GL1... What are you using Grazie?

XM2 [PAL] - Grazie

Lense Filters for Wide Angle?
 

I was wondering if anyone knew of a company that mande UV, soft, or anyother type of lense filters that would fit on my canon wide angle lense....

thanks!

Go see Matte Boxes . . .
 

Matte box is the only way I know of getting a filter "in front" of the BIG end. If you want to screw filters at the "THIN" end then you can ONLY deal with non-Grad OR NON-Pola filters. I've used UV and SKYlight 58mm on the thin end. However, using screw filters are a massive pain in the bottom.

Once you are using a matte box then the World's Your Lobster! I use a Kestrel Matte Box and Formatt filters - and this on a XM2 - works a treat!

Grazie

Hi Grazie,

Out of interest, why do you say you can't put a polariser before the wide angle? Fully accepted it's a pain but I have used a cheap Tiffen filter between the wide angle and the camera and haven't noticed any issues at any focal length.

Actually, having said that, the one thing I have noticed is that the W/A is ever so slightly lose fitting when it's attached to the Tiffen.

Still up for that beer one day???!!!

Cheers.

Ian . . .

How do you twist it? Them pola that is?

Drink! Anytime PAL!

Grazie

It just, well, twists! (along with the w/a of course.)

It doesn't affect the polariser action at all (although, as I mentioned before, I think the extra weight of the w/a on the filter does make the rotating disc a bit loose).

Regarding a wee drinky, I'm in a Variety Club charity show at the moment so very tied up. Let's do what we agreed last year - let me get back to you when I'm a bit freer! Which of course means we'll be having this conversation again in 6 months!!

Cheers.

Ian . . .

BTW, if ever you are down in the New Forest over a weekend, be sure to visit the Saturday market at Lymington. I just picked up 2 Hakuba metal cam cases with original uncut foam for a fiver each. There is a stall there which deals only in photographic equipment and they have loads of lenses, filters, cases etc etc. All used, much garbage, but the odd gem.

Small chips in Wide Angle
 

I held my GL-2 out the window of a car to get really low car shots and got a couple tiny, very tiny, chips in the lense. whats th ebst way to get these repaired or in the futuree protect my wide angle lense.

In the future, try an inexpensive (at least compared to replacing the cameras lens) UV filter over the lens. Be careful, it sounds dangerous.

Just a thought about filters behind the wide angle. I know on my GL-2, if I put a filter behind the wide angle, I experience vignetting.