So as I mentioned earlier I picked up some new camera equipment and that means I had to pick up some accessories that you need to get things working properly. One of those things is something called a step ring.
When shooting photos I like to use a polarizer on my lens, it helps make some colours more vibrant and lets you play around with reflections when you are shooting. The problem is that these things screw onto the front of the lens and different lenses can have different sizes for these mounts. While these filters aren’t especially expensive they aren’t cheap enough to be disposable. So what Iv’e done is picked up a larger polarizing filter and use a set of adapters to step the smaller mounts up to the larger filter size.
So while the filters aren’t cheap enough to be considered disposable you a get those step rings for a price on Amazon that’s getting into that price range.
So, after picking up a new lens this week with another filter size that needed another step ring to adapt things properly I just ordered one up off of Amazon and after a couple of days I wound up the proud owner of the wrong item.
And not wrong by a little bit, I had ordered a 52mm to 67mm step ring and was shipped a 72mm to 72mm extension.
The extension would be useful if I was trying to space the filter out for clearance purposes but I have absolutely nothing with a 72mm mount on the front of the lens.
So obviously I started a return on the Amazon side of things and after a short delay I now have the correct item in my hands, however the interesting thing is that they didn’t want the original item sent back and basically told me to keep it. I’m guessing this item is actually cheap enough that the cost to ship it back to the warehouse exceeded the actual price of the item in the first place.
So I guess that I now have a 72mm extension tube in my inventory in the event that I have need of one.