As I said, the only way to know for sure is to test. That said, look into the Hoya Pro-1 CP. It's very slim and still has front threads. I needed a 72mm CP for my Panasonic L1's lens and bought a Heliopan, but it was a right bastard to get it to thread onto the lens. I ended up returning it and ordering the one that Panasonic sells under the Lumix brand name. It turned out to be a re- branded Hoya Pro-1 ... and it was cheaper than the Hoya or B+W options by $30 or so.
It's very thin, very nicely finished, the antireflection coatings seem on par with my other B&W polarizers, and the front threads allow fitment of a clip-on lens cap without any problems. The Hoya Pro-1 has been sold under at least three other brand names (Kenko in the UK, can't remember at the moment what the others are...). G On Aug 18, 2007, at 12:35 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > Yes, you are right, it does depend on the lens. > I just thought that entire range of view angles of lenses > can be divided into three ranges: certainly no vignetting[*], > certainly vignetting, and a "grey zone" in between, > where it depends on the lens. > > In this particular case, I am choosing a CP filter that will > go well with a Nikon 18-200 VR that I am trying to buy for my brother > (he has a D70). > I've been looking at B+W, as I like the quality of the one I've had > for some 7 years. But since I don't quite like the problem of the > cap that doesn't hold on B+W slim filters, I would prefer a non-slim > version if possible... However, I have doubts that even with the 1.5x > crop factor, the non-slim version will work at 18 mm focal distance. > Even though this is a wrong list for this lens, I'd appreciate > anybody's experience with it and polarizers, shared on or off the > list. > > Someone here has mentioned Marumi DHG CP a few months ago as a slim > filter > that still has a thread on the outside. While I am not sure if > this lens coasting is as good as B+W MRC, the first problem is to > find who sells these filters. > (Does anybody know a good source in the US? - I only found UK-based > kauserinternational.com ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
