Step up ring and hood for 50mm 1.2, does it fit?

[Hannes]

Having recently acquired a canon 50mm f1.2 and the missus somehow not minding too much the problem of filters has arisen. All filters I have are 77mm to fit my zooms so I was hoping it'd be possible to use a step-up adapter 72-77mm and still fit the normal lens hood. Does anyone know if it works? The filters I have are all slim Hoya filters

I was hoping to not have to buy more filters as they are after all pretty expensive and the only other lens I could see myself buying with another size thread would be using 67mm filter size.

 

[Ozarker]

Having recently acquired a canon 50mm f1.2 and the missus somehow not minding too much the problem of filters has arisen. All filters I have are 77mm to fit my zooms so I was hoping it'd be possible to use a step-up adapter 72-77mm and still fit the normal lens hood. Does anyone know if it works? The filters I have are all slim Hoya filters

I was hoping to not have to buy more filters as they are after all pretty expensive and the only other lens I could see myself buying with another size thread would be using 67mm filter size.

If it does fit you'll have to put the hood on first and then screw on the filter. It's a pita. Especially when you try getting the thing off (circular polarizer, or variable ND filter.) and all you have to grab is that blasted rotating ring.

I only know this from my own not well thought out stupid experience when I got my first DSLR and tried to save some money by buying rings. :'(

I can't remember what I was stepping up to. I just remember being very frustrated worried I'd never get the thing off. :-[

5mm might be okay. I'm staring at a totally useless B+W 58mm-67mm ring from those days. That's a 9mm difference so that might have been my problem child.

BTW: Thanks for reminding me of this.

You may find you don't need the hood when filtered depending on how you shoot.

I've got: B+W 52-67, 58-67, and two 67-77mm all from my EF-S lens days. Can't use any of them now.

Gonna go stand in the corner and cry.

 

[Loswr]

I've got: B+W 52-67, 58-67, and two 67-77mm all from my EF-S lens days. Can't use any of them now.

Why two of one ring size? ???

I gave away my 58→77mm ring a while back, but I still have a 67→77mm and a 77→82mm. I typically travel with an 82mm CPL and 10-stop ND, and the rings let me use them on my 70-300L (my other travel lenses take 82mm filters, except the TS-E 17 for which I bring the Wonderpana salad plates).

 

[Ozarker]

I've got: B+W 52-67, 58-67, and two 67-77mm all from my EF-S lens days. Can't use any of them now.

Why two of one ring size? ???

I gave away my 58→77mm ring a while back, but I still have a 67→77mm and a 77→82mm. I typically travel with an 82mm CPL and 10-stop ND, and the rings let me use them on my 70-300L (my other travel lenses take 82mm filters, except the TS-E 17 for which I bring the Wonderpana salad plates).

Why two? In case I want to use it more than once.

I can't answer your question Neuro. I have no earthly idea why I have two. That's the sad part. I might have thought I lost one or forgot to cross it off the list of things I thought I needed after purchase. Who knows.

Just yesterday I was looking at what to do about filters to see if I might be able to save some money by making everything I already don't have (new purchases) 82mm to match my 24-70.

I have the B+W 72-77 and a [Pro]Master 77-82 ring. I'll have to pull things out today and see how all that fits. The [Pro]Master ring likes to stick real bad to the B+W, so I may have to dump it.

Get this: I also have two circular polarizers @ 77mm (B+W Circular Polarizer MRC, and B+W Circular Polarizer MRC-Nano Digital). Two different polarizers, but serve the same function. Again, I have no idea why two.

In 82mm I have B+W MRC2 Nano HTC Digital XS-PRO KSM circular polarizer and B+W ND 1.8 64X 6-stop Digital F-Pro.

When I got the 70-200mm I had no idea the 24-70 would have such a large front element and never thought I'd have it anyway. I had a crop camera and lenses covering ranges up to 85mm. So I only bought 77mm filters.

I know, this is far more than you wanted to know. I've been pretty much cooped up in the house for a year and a half from injuries. Finally got the right Achilles tendon reattached last month. Might be healed by late October. I'm only 53, but getting very forgetful, so maybe that's why I have two of some things. I can remember things that happened years ago very well, but I couldn't review the last week with you and sometimes don't remember who I talked to just hours before. Having lots of trouble learning new things too. Docs in this one dog town don't seem to take the forgetfulness seriously. Nobody will refer me to a neurologist. Did the clock test and all that.

 

[Loswr]

I can remember things that happened years ago very well, but I couldn't review the last week with you and sometimes don't remember who I talked to just hours before. Having lots of trouble learning new things too. Docs in this one dog town don't seem to take the forgetfulness seriously. Nobody will refer me to a neurologist. Did the clock test and all that.

Memory problems...a colleague of mine at the Mass General Hosp memory clinic once saw a patient who was an MIT math professor and his chief complaint was that he could no longer derive equations in his head. Passed every standard memory test with flying colors, 5 years later he was failing them and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Fortunately, you're young for that...even the familial forms (except for Down syndrome).

 

[Ozarker]

I can remember things that happened years ago very well, but I couldn't review the last week with you and sometimes don't remember who I talked to just hours before. Having lots of trouble learning new things too. Docs in this one dog town don't seem to take the forgetfulness seriously. Nobody will refer me to a neurologist. Did the clock test and all that.

Memory problems...a colleague of mine at the Mass General Hosp memory clinic once saw a patient who was an MIT math professor and his chief complaint was that he could no longer derive equations in his head. Passed every standard memory test with flying colors, 5 years later he was failing them and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Fortunately, you're young for that...even the familial forms (except for Down syndrome).

Ouch. I have been worried things are headed that way.