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<blockquote data-quote="Alistair" data-source="post: 361798" data-attributes="member: 18904">I’m stuck! The lens is so expensive that I begrudge paying a huge amount of money for a filter solution. What I was thinking of doing is buying the plastic slot-in-type ND filters and simply blu-tacking in front of the lens, when required. But then, will one of these filters cover the enormous bit of glass on the front of the lens? I’m not sure it would.&nbsp;On the one hand the 14-24 seems like a superb bit of glass, but on the other that (very expensive) glass shall be exposed to damage and scratches without the ability to cover it.&nbsp;I have been reading up on the Nikon 16-35mm lens, which has a diameter of 77mm, like the 10-24 I’ll be selling (wooohoo, can use my ND filters!), but the thing that puts me off that camera is the huge distortion at 16mm. And, considering the price, that’s quite unforgiveable.&nbsp; I nearly always shoot my wide-angles at their minimum range.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alistair, post: 361798, member: 18904"] I’m stuck! The lens is so expensive that I begrudge paying a huge amount of money for a filter solution. What I was thinking of doing is buying the plastic slot-in-type ND filters and simply blu-tacking in front of the lens, when required. But then, will one of these filters cover the enormous bit of glass on the front of the lens? I’m not sure it would. On the one hand the 14-24 seems like a superb bit of glass, but on the other that (very expensive) glass shall be exposed to damage and scratches without the ability to cover it. I have been reading up on the Nikon 16-35mm lens, which has a diameter of 77mm, like the 10-24 I’ll be selling (wooohoo, can use my ND filters!), but the thing that puts me off that camera is the huge distortion at 16mm. And, considering the price, that’s quite unforgiveable. I nearly always shoot my wide-angles at their minimum range. [/QUOTE]

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