Hi anybody with some experience of using "step up ring" with 24mm Nikon wide angle lens(mountsize 52 mm) and a 62mm polarizer filter?

does step-up ring solve the vignetting problem in the corners of 35 mm frame? Middle

-- middle (middlegray@hotmail.com), November 19, 2001

Answers

You're obviously not using the genuine 52mm Nikon polarizer. Nikon's Polarising filter is an oversize filter glass in a rotating mount, and it very much resembles a larger filter in a step-up ring.

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), November 19, 2001.

Hi pete, Actually I intent to buy one polarizer. Just want to know, based on what you said.... If I use an original nikon polarizer, I wont get any vigneting along the corners even with 24mm lens? Thanks Shreepad

-- middle (middlegray@hotmail.com), November 19, 2001.

I've got the MF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8, and the MF 20mm f/3.5 Nikkor, as well as a Sigma AF 24mm f/2.8. None of them show any sign of vignetting with the Nikon polariser. Normal 52mm Hoya filters don't vignette those lenses either, but I can't vouch for any other designs of 24mm Nikkor.

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), November 20, 2001.

It will solve your problem and save you money also... being that you have to buy only one polarizer for several lens.

-- Scott Walton (scotlynn@shore.net), November 20, 2001.