Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:11 PM 4/22/2007, Michiel Fokkema wrote: >Hi Ric, > >I use the universal polarizing filter. Look here: >http://www.leica-camera.us/photography/m_system/accessories/filters/478.html > >Kenko also has an option look >here:http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/accessories.htm#LabelKRP Michael Having suffered with really marginal products from Kenko for years before I learned that proper products were available, I am a bit surprised to see that name mentioned here. As a basic rule, Kenko equals junk. Try their adapters sometime: they fail within a couple of months from metal fatique. I suspect that they are made from recycled aluminum paper from Cracker Jack boxes. (Now, try H&H adapters, and these both cost less and are good to go for decades). The querent did not identify his gear, and this makes it difficult to give advice beyond warning him to avoid Kenko like the plague. If he is using E39 gear (probably 70% of all Leitz/Leica lenses made to date), then he should purchase one of the old E39 Pola-Screens, readily available on eBay and from many another forum. But he asked not where to get such but how to use it. If the querent will tell us what gear he has and which polarizer, perhaps we can help him in some detail, though I rarely use a Pola-Screen in my own photography. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!