Do I need a slim or thin filter ring for my lens?

This has become our number one question at the 2filter tech department.

First, we always recommend you shoot through the least amount of glass as possible. Use one filter at a time. The protective, UV or clear will not enhance the polarized image when used along with a circular polarizer in the world of digital.

The ring dilemna starts with many of our customers being new to SLR cameras. Many image makers making the switch from film to digital, Many starting back to image remembering the lenses of the past. The full frame 18mm film super wide lenses always needed special filters. Today in the popular digital SLR Camera with the smaller image sensor. The 10 mm lenses are now considered the super wides.

On a digital zoom lens 18mm -to ??mm any circular polarizer in the market today works perfect even with many of the wide 12mm to 24 zooms.

All of the current circular polarizer’s offered by 2filter.com from Japan, Germany or the USA are perfect for this style of digital SLR camera lens.

Here’s a simple point of view, no maker of circular polarizer’s on earth have offered for sale to the public any rotating/ screw mount version in less than a 5mm high ring with or without front threads.

No quality SLR lens manufactures in the high tech world have ever produced a popular zoom range lens that was not able to accept the use of a polarizer ... So

Don’t pay more for a slimmer ring
it will not make the image files better.

If the lens you own takes a circular polarizer, and most do, a 5mm high protective, UV or clear camera filter will be fine.