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Kickstarter: Aurora Aperture next gen rear mount filter system now live

Canon Rumors
Posted onMay 19, 2020 at 7:34 AM
Updated onUpdated on May 19, 2020 at 9:35 AM

Last week Aurora Aperture announced their next-generation rear mount filter system for a lot of wide-angle lenses. As promised these filters are now available through Kickstarter.

Compatible Canon Lenses:

  • EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM
  • EF 11-24mm F4L USM
  • EF 14mm f/2.8L USM & EF 14mm f/2.8L USM II
  • EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye
  • EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM (EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM not supported)
  • EF 17-35mm f/2.8L USM
  • EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
  • Sigma 14-24mm F2.8 DG HSM Art
  • Sigma 14mm F1.8 DG HSM Art

Check out the Aurora Aperture rear mount filters on Kickstarter

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Maximilian

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Two third party articles about the same topic on the "front page" at the same time.
Craig, sorry but this too much curry favor for me :(

You could have merged these two informations to one articles. Then okay.
 
fox40phil

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Is it impossible to built a rear filter system for each lense? just infront of the sensor/mount?

To bad the 16-35 4.0L is missing on the list.

It would be nice if photo cameras could wear a step-in filter in the sensor-housing. Just like the (old) mirror just from above^^.
 
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degos

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So they've already developed the filters and are selling them through Kickstarter...

Any company that cynical gets ignored by me. Just put them on a Shopify site and stop pretending to be an agile startup.
 
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fingerstein

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What if after a shock the filter falls in and hits the sensor? This cannot be seen as a professional option. Just another fancy/marketing thing.
 
Maximilian

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fingerstein said:
... This cannot be seen as a professional option. ...
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There is also another reason against "professional use" that I've posted in the other thread about this system:
Maximilian said:
Not a product for my kit.

I can understand the idea behind it, but when I want to make serious nature photog with WA/UWA lenses my most important filter would be a graduated ND where I can decide the level of the horizon by shifting it in my filter holder. Try to do so with a rear mount filter system :rolleyes:

Luckily they don't offer a CPL for it. That would have made it bonkers :ROFLMAO:
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Mt Spokane Photography

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Wouldn't that filter system be very sensitive to fingerprints or dust? I know from experience that dust on a rear lens element shows up in photos, but you don' have to handle that element, and they seldom get dust on them. A filter might be different and the method of holding it to install it would be critical to keeping it clean.
 
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fingerstein said:
What if after a shock the filter falls in and hits the sensor? This cannot be seen as a professional option. Just another fancy/marketing thing.
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that’s why we have engineers. They do things like calculate and test the G forces it would take to dislodge a magnetic filter and compare that to the G forces a camera might survive.
Pretty easy stuff.
 
Maximilian

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Eclipsed said:
that’s why we have engineers. They do things like calculate and test the G forces it would take to dislodge a magnetic filter and compare that to the G forces a camera might survive.
Pretty easy stuff.
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And you sure they did at Aurora Aperture?
Including an accidentally dropping of the gear?
Hmm... then this company is much better than the guys that did their website :ROFLMAO:
But who cares about good software engineers when we have good mechanical engineers:rolleyes:
 
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