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1.0 out of 5 starsFilter Threads are Awful
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2021
Sorry, I wanted to love this, but it's very poorly made. For over a year, I've had some of their crystals ( I bought an expansion pack), just rigging them with Noga arms and such. They were great (overpriced, but they worked). I finally decided to try the official way to rig them, using this device, but its held back by truly awful filter threads. Have you ever bought a really cheap step up ring and struggled to get it to thread onto your lens or filter? Thats the same feeling with this. It feels like a bad $1 step up/down ring. I tried mounting it to multiple lenses, and to a few UV filters (nice B+W and Hoya ones), all with 77mm filter size, and it was a no go or rough go on each one. Oddly enough, it did seat in a cheapo step up ring that I had laying around. There is zero chance that I'd have time to fiddle with these threads on a shoot, nor do I want to damage the threads on my expensive lenses. The only way that I can see making this work is to leave it mounted to a stepup ring or force it onto a cheap filter, and just never use the filter threads again. The other bummer, but not one that should be a surprise, is that there's no good way to use this with larger lenses (RF 28-70, for example). I wish they made a larger version, but I doubt I would buy it after experiencing this one.
