djwalker575
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Apologies in advance if this is a silly question, I'm rather new to filters.
I make my living as a videographer, shooting on a Canon 60D. I also do a fair amount of photo shooting for my clients. I need a ND filter to be able to shoot in fairly well lit environments with a very shallow depth of field (f1.4 is ideal).
I do, however, really like the look that a good circular polarizer gives to images, and in researching them I found that they also can act as a ND filter and can give up to two stops of brightness control. Only thing is, I shoot most of my stuff with either a Canon 50mm f1.4 (58mm filter size) or a Canon 70-200mm f2.8L lens (77mm filter size).
I've heard of step-down rings that allow filters to be used on different size lenses, is this an option here? Or would it just be weird/bad to be using a 77mm filter on a 58mm lens with step-down rings? It would be pretty nice not to have to buy multiples of the same filter just to accomodate the two lenses.
I make my living as a videographer, shooting on a Canon 60D. I also do a fair amount of photo shooting for my clients. I need a ND filter to be able to shoot in fairly well lit environments with a very shallow depth of field (f1.4 is ideal).
I do, however, really like the look that a good circular polarizer gives to images, and in researching them I found that they also can act as a ND filter and can give up to two stops of brightness control. Only thing is, I shoot most of my stuff with either a Canon 50mm f1.4 (58mm filter size) or a Canon 70-200mm f2.8L lens (77mm filter size).
I've heard of step-down rings that allow filters to be used on different size lenses, is this an option here? Or would it just be weird/bad to be using a 77mm filter on a 58mm lens with step-down rings? It would be pretty nice not to have to buy multiples of the same filter just to accomodate the two lenses.