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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 811853" data-attributes="member: 48483">You can make a reasonable home-made filter. That solar film material in the cardboard glasses can be purchased in larger sheets on Amazon and other places. It can be cut and used to make multiple filters for different lenses.Save some scrap cardboard and a roll of duct tape to make them. Cut a strip of cardboard about 3 inches wide and wrap around a lens barrel, then tape at seam to create a tube to hold on lens. Cut a square of corrugated cardboard larger than your lens end. Set lens end on the cardboard and trace the circle on the cardboard. Cut out the circle with some kind of sharp knife-like thing. Duct-tape a square of the filter material over the hole. Duct tape the tube you made before on the filter. Slip over end of lens.The film tends to create a yellowish sun with auto WB, but my 150mm square store-bought solar filter results in a white sun that way. I get something for the money investment. The yellow homemade filter photo above looks unsharp because of the old lens I'm using, not so much the filter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 811853, member: 48483"] You can make a reasonable home-made filter. That solar film material in the cardboard glasses can be purchased in larger sheets on Amazon and other places. It can be cut and used to make multiple filters for different lenses. Save some scrap cardboard and a roll of duct tape to make them. Cut a strip of cardboard about 3 inches wide and wrap around a lens barrel, then tape at seam to create a tube to hold on lens. Cut a square of corrugated cardboard larger than your lens end. Set lens end on the cardboard and trace the circle on the cardboard. Cut out the circle with some kind of sharp knife-like thing. Duct-tape a square of the filter material over the hole. Duct tape the tube you made before on the filter. Slip over end of lens. The film tends to create a yellowish sun with auto WB, but my 150mm square store-bought solar filter results in a white sun that way. I get something for the money investment. The yellow homemade filter photo above looks unsharp because of the old lens I'm using, not so much the filter. [/QUOTE]

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