A Primer On Series Filters
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- If you use older lenses without filter threads on them, then attaching filters can be tricky. One solution is to use “Series” size filters. This video I show a few standard sizes and how three different methods they use to attach to lenses.
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Thinking I'll have to use some sort of darkening filter for daytime. Like an ND filter. My camera is cloth shutter so only 1000 of a second. Which id like to shoot at f8 during the day if I could. This is a super useful video. I never would have known any of this information had you not shown it. Everyone else is shooting film like they would digital because they don't know any better. Its great that I found you so that I can see how film is done specifically. There are more differences than I would have thought due to physical technologies and software or film technology
I have a handful of these I got in basically an estate sale kit ... they make a lot more sense now. Thank you!
Series filters were the industry standard format for filters and their accessories until the late 1950s, when direct threaded filters became popular, IMO because there were fewer pieces required to do the same job. I think the Series system started in the 1930s. Requiring adapters, it could be applied to any camera/lens which had an adapter, of which there were hundreds. Also, prior to the mid-50s, many cameras had no lens front thread and used the "slip on" adapters. Kodak was a major driver of the Series system. It had purchased a small company in Britain which made the top quality filters, and marketed them as "Kodak Wattern" filters in Series sizes. Dyed glass filters were then fairly poor quality, and the Wrattens are made by taking optical gel sheets and laminating them between thin optical glass pieces, bound in a metal ring. As lens makers shifted to threaded filter mounts and dyed glass filters increased in quality (thank you Nikon), Series filters fell out of fashion very quickly. Today, their advantage would be to fit a camera with no front lens thread, or a filter thread you cannot find filters for, for a filter not made in threaded sizes (decamireds), or because they commonly sell for less than 15% of a similar threaded filter. A full set of Series 9 decamired (color balancing filters most use in the movie industry) filter probably last sold new for $300+. I bought a full set at a swap meet about 20 years ago for $15.
@8:51 - The Brick! hahaha... Mine is missing the 'advance' release nut, so I have to spool the entire roll of film into the camera, using a pin to depress the locking mechanism that the nut would screw into.. But the advantage to this is that I shoot the roll in reverse.. If I inadvertently (stupid moment) open the back and expose the film, well I'm not losing the photos I took...
Really loving the new intro!
Do you know where I can get series 4 and series 4.5 Neutral density filters? E bay has limited options on this.
eBay and camera swap meets is all I could tell you
Where did you find the adapter with the screw posts? I tried searching both Google and ebay and can't seem to find one. I switched to using Cokin style filters on my older non-threaded lenses but I would love to have the option of using glass series ix filters.
I find all mine on eBay. Search for “SSLR”, which stands for set screw locking ring. It’s part luck, part timing on finding them.
@@TheNakedPhotographer Thank you very much! That did the trick.
I tried buying a series 6 adapter for my Zeiss Nettar, I believe it was a 32mm push in based on my research, but it did not fit. Do you have any experience with lenses that have the “slot” for a push in adapter?
Typically the push on type go around the outside of the lens barrel, is that what you mean, or were you trying to push it into the lens somehow? I’m trying to get a clear picture of what didn’t fit.
The Naked Photographer there is a slot between the outside barrel and where the lens info is written. I may totally wrong about that being where the adapter goes. I was hoping you would have some first hand experience with something like that and tell me I’m being an idiot and how to fit an adapter properly.
The Naked Photographer also, thanks for these videos about gear and processes that probably would be lost without people like you re-introducing it amateurs like myself.
The adapter should slip around the outside of the barrel. If it’s a close fit you may be able to bend the adapter tabs to fit better.