[Leica] help! stuck filter!

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Now that makes perfect sense.  I have the same Heliopan thin polarizer, but
> on a 35-70.  At times it is bound like it is welded to the lens.  I try and
> try and it does not budge.  Then, with a very slight effort it comes of
> easily.  It is so thin and so close to the lens my filter wrench does not
> even want to grab it.  And working from the front, it just rotates like any
> polarizer is suppose to.  So, I would just work at it slowly with mild
> pressure and maybe yours will behave like mine and come loose.  I know 
> brass
> is not suppose to bind, so the distortion hypothesis makes perfect sense.  
> I
> just always forget and grip harder and twist harder until I remember that a
> gentle touch often (not always) works best.
> 
> Aram
> 


It said in the Popular photography gadgets and gizmos page 1964 September to
put a rubber band around the filter then take it off. It just comes right
off I tried it once early 1972 I think it was January.

But I find just putting on a rubber glove easier.

Mark William Rabiner