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I don't know if this will be of any use to anyone but I've been looking around for a solution to this for a while. This represents an amalgamation of a couple of alternative solutions that I found on the web.
I've got FF gear which is blinking heavy and cumbersome when you just want to take a camera along for a day out/holiday.
So, I recently bought a M43 body along with a 7-14mm lens. It's a great landscape lens but it brings with it the issue of not being able to mount filters. I've already got a Lee SW150 kit and I really didn't want to invest in an additional, smaller filter kit. So I had to devise a way of mounting the Lee kit on the 7-14mm fixed hood because no-one sells ready made kit to do it. I would think this method would work equally well for the Lee 100mm kit as well although I'd have to reserve absolute judgement until I measure the internal diameter of a 100mm holder.
Anyway, here's how I did it (apologies for the quality of the photos):
Firstly, buy a circle cutter or compass cutter as they're sometimes called (see below). Without this the process is very difficult. Mine cost £3.87 from Amazon. It's worth it's weight in gold.
The scale on my cutter was remarkably accurate but I'd cut a test circle to make sure yours is and adjust accordingly.
The next bit could be a bit harder to source. I managed to get hold of some 13mm high density foam board. My neighbour had just covered his garage floor with it and had some off cuts. Its the same sort of stuff that they make those kneeling pads out of for gardening etc. I've seen them in the pound shop occasionally.
The internal diameter of my holder is 120mm so I added a mm to ensure a snugg fit and cut as shown below.
The diameter of the hood was about 70mm so I took off a mm and cut a 69mm hole to ensure the gasket had snug fit on the lens hood.
And that's it.
It easily supports my SW150 holder and 2 filters (about 350g) without any movement at all. You can slide it back to avoid vignetting. It's also light, takes up very little space and doesn't damage the lens hood. I know the 150x170mm filters look at odds with the scale of the body/lens it does ensure that I avoid vignetting!!
I can't remember the exact set up on the Lee 100mm gear regarding the 10 stop so I'm not sure whether the gasket would vignette with that system. I've bought a Hitech IRND 10 stop to use with the SW150 holder. In order to stop light leak on that I had to manufacture an additional gasket to seal the filter to the holder - it works pretty well to be fair.
I hope that may be of help to someone. I may have enough material to manufacture a couple of additional ones should anyone want one.
Cheers, Mark
I don't know if this will be of any use to anyone but I've been looking around for a solution to this for a while. This represents an amalgamation of a couple of alternative solutions that I found on the web.
I've got FF gear which is blinking heavy and cumbersome when you just want to take a camera along for a day out/holiday.
So, I recently bought a M43 body along with a 7-14mm lens. It's a great landscape lens but it brings with it the issue of not being able to mount filters. I've already got a Lee SW150 kit and I really didn't want to invest in an additional, smaller filter kit. So I had to devise a way of mounting the Lee kit on the 7-14mm fixed hood because no-one sells ready made kit to do it. I would think this method would work equally well for the Lee 100mm kit as well although I'd have to reserve absolute judgement until I measure the internal diameter of a 100mm holder.
Anyway, here's how I did it (apologies for the quality of the photos):
Firstly, buy a circle cutter or compass cutter as they're sometimes called (see below). Without this the process is very difficult. Mine cost £3.87 from Amazon. It's worth it's weight in gold.
The scale on my cutter was remarkably accurate but I'd cut a test circle to make sure yours is and adjust accordingly.
The next bit could be a bit harder to source. I managed to get hold of some 13mm high density foam board. My neighbour had just covered his garage floor with it and had some off cuts. Its the same sort of stuff that they make those kneeling pads out of for gardening etc. I've seen them in the pound shop occasionally.
The internal diameter of my holder is 120mm so I added a mm to ensure a snugg fit and cut as shown below.
The diameter of the hood was about 70mm so I took off a mm and cut a 69mm hole to ensure the gasket had snug fit on the lens hood.
And that's it.
It easily supports my SW150 holder and 2 filters (about 350g) without any movement at all. You can slide it back to avoid vignetting. It's also light, takes up very little space and doesn't damage the lens hood. I know the 150x170mm filters look at odds with the scale of the body/lens it does ensure that I avoid vignetting!!
I can't remember the exact set up on the Lee 100mm gear regarding the 10 stop so I'm not sure whether the gasket would vignette with that system. I've bought a Hitech IRND 10 stop to use with the SW150 holder. In order to stop light leak on that I had to manufacture an additional gasket to seal the filter to the holder - it works pretty well to be fair.
I hope that may be of help to someone. I may have enough material to manufacture a couple of additional ones should anyone want one.
Cheers, Mark
