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Subject: [Leica] help! stuck filter!
From: rsphotoimages at comcast.net (Bob Shaw)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:28:32 -0800
References: <mailman.879.1261188023.38619.lug@leica-users.org> <SNT121-DS1686100D8CCD976AE7C983D4830@phx.gbl>

Just like meditation or prayer, I suppose I'll take a "filter moment" each 
day to contemplate the alloy molecules and their relationship to my 
electromagnetic field and try a little tenderness.

I'm not kidding.  If it worked for you it could work for me.  I hope.

If this doesn't work - to quote Woody Allen in "Annie Hall" - I'm taking it 
to Lourdes...

Meanwhile, I've got a built-in circular Polarizer for those extremely rare 
sunny moments in Seattle this time of year.

I know- I'll buy another 70-180 and use it for non-polarized shots.  Why 
didn't I think of that earlier?  Duh!

Cheers,

Bob



Bob Shaw
rsphotoimages at comcast.net





On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Aram Langhans wrote:

> Now that makes perfect sense.  I have the same Heliopan thin polarizer, 
> but on a 35-70.  At times it is bound like it is welded to the lens.  I 
> try and try and it does not budge.  Then, with a very slight effort it 
> comes of easily.  It is so thin and so close to the lens my filter wrench 
> does not even want to grab it.  And working from the front, it just 
> rotates like any polarizer is suppose to.  So, I would just work at it 
> slowly with e Womild pressure and maybe yours will behave like mine and 
> come loose.  I know brass is not suppose to bind, so the distortion 
> hypothesis makes perfect sense.  I just always forget and grip harder and 
> twist harder until I remember that a gentle touch often (not always) works 
> best.
> 
> Aram
> 
>> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:46:45 +1000
>> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] help! stuck filter!
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
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>> 
>> Rubber strap wrench for opening jars (like a car air filter tool). It
>> spreads the force more evenly and grips perfectly. I've used it on the
>> slimmest of filters successfully. A complication is that the filter is
>> distorted out of round when you apply pressure unevenly and the binding is
>> worse.
>> 
>> 2009/12/19 Bob Shaw <rsphotoimages at comcast.net>
>> 
>>> Most of the solutions offered really work on a fixed-ring standard
>>> thickness filter.
>>> 
>>> Before I take it into town for "professional help" I thought I'd check in
>>> with the LUG about the Heliopan Slim Circular Polarizer on my R-Vario 
>>> 70-180
>>> APO.
> 
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