circular polarizers on nikon lenses and D610

Thinking of purchasing circular polarizers for use with my 610 and nikon lenses. Anyone have advice which ones i should purchase:
Nikon? B & W? Hoya? I use the following lenses, all Nikons, with their filter sizes: 24-85 f/3.5-4.5 - 72mm filter; 85/f.1.8, 67mm filter;
50mm/ f1.4, 58mm filter; 105mm f/2.8, 62mm filter.
Is it best to purchase the largest filter - in this case, 72mm- and use step-up adapters?

What do you recommend?

Hoya HD is one of the most popular CPL filters among the members here. It's not cheap but nothing worth getting is.

I use Hoya on some of the same lenses you have with very good luck.

eal1 said:

Thinking of purchasing circular polarizers for use with my 610 and nikon lenses. Anyone have advice which ones i should purchase:
Nikon? B & W? Hoya? I use the following lenses, all Nikons, with their filter sizes: 24-85 f/3.5-4.5 - 72mm filter; 85/f.1.8, 67mm filter;
50mm/ f1.4, 58mm filter; 105mm f/2.8, 62mm filter.
Is it best to purchase the largest filter - in this case, 72mm- and use step-up adapters?

What do you recommend?

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This post has very little to do with the D610. The topic is more towards lens filters and should have been posted to the appropriate forum.

With that said I use both Nikon and BW filters and I do not like using adapters or swapping filters in order to minimize thread damage that may strip them.


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gqtuazon said:

With that said I use both Nikon and BW filters and I do not like using adapters or swapping filters in order to minimize thread damage that may strip them.

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FYI, the filter thread on the lens is a lot stronger than we think - they are really not that flimsy. I work in a camera store with an inhouse repair facility and I have yet to see a lens with damage filter thread. We see a lot of filters being stuck on the lens and help remove them. Here are the 3 most common scenario:

1. Filter screwed on too tight (usually a woman will bring this problem to us because her gorrilla BF or hubby put the filter on for her!) or while it's hot (left in the sun in the car) and when cooled down with filter on, it's seized. This can usually be removed by using a filter wrench (buy one on eBay if you don't want to pay us $10 to do it for you.) or put lens in zip lock sandwich bag in the freezer for 15 mins and filter will unscrew. (Nikon repairs told us to do this - yes they did and it works wonderfully.)

2. Filter screwed on in a hurry and got cross-threaded. In minor cases, if there's still room to put a screw driver between filter and lens lip, we put a thin screw-driver in the space and twist till we hear a pop and lens thread falls back in place and unscrews very loosely. If that doesn't work, in severe cases, we break the glass on the filter, use a needle-nose pliers and pull in the rim of the filter (without the glass) and then remove the metal rim. Again $10 plus sell another filter!

3 Worst case scenario, lens "gently" dropped on hard surface landing on the rim bending the filter and so cannot be unscrewed. Remedy same as (2) above - break glass and use pliers to pull in metal rim then unscrew.

But in all cases, I have never ever seen the female thread side on the lens being damaged. Our store also is a pickup point for Borrowlenses.com which rents out expensive (and not so expensive lenses) and we asked if they have any problem with filter threads damaged by renters - the answer is no. So, there you have it - don't worry. The filter threads on the lens are much more durable than we imagine.

I recommend Hoya HD filters without hesitation; simply put, they're excellent quality and a joy to work with.

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Thanks All - i appreciate the responses. Glenn correctly points out that this post belongs in another forum and i have posted there as well, with apologies to the Nikonites for any inconvenience this caused. Yauman's response was especially interesting. i wonder if after freezing the lens the customer was told how the task of removing a stubbornly fixed filter was accomplished.

eal1 said:

Thanks All - i appreciate the responses. Glenn correctly points out that this post belongs in another forum and i have posted there as well, with apologies to the Nikonites for any inconvenience this caused. Yauman's response was especially interesting. i wonder if after freezing the lens the customer was told how the task of removing a stubbornly fixed filter was accomplished.

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I find a rubber band around the circumference of the filter facilitates easy removal. Kind of the poor man's "lens wrench".

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I would even go to say that if you plan on getting pro glass in the semi/near future, you might as well get a 77 filter, all the step-up rings for your lenses, and an extra 77mm front cap.

No reason to buy several ~$100/+ filters just because you have different lenses.