NV Filter Thief

[uk_seawolf]

Hi I must be doing something wrong as I have now lost 3 filters is there a way of making them more secure as its starting to cost alot of dosh ???

Thanks Barry

 

[Arkady]

Keep them on the lens... Hel-lo?

 

[Yardbent]

Keep them on the lens... Hel-lo?

buy a filter wrench
screw them on BY HAND really firmly

if they get stuck, then use the filter wrench to get them OFF (only)

 

[goldenstar]

How have you lost them, where they on a lens, in a bag, in your hand?

Is it screw on ones or lee/cokin type ones?

 

[towershot]

If you keep taking them off for some reason while out and about,get one of those vests with loads of pockets and when you take it off put it in a pocket.

DO NOT for any reason put it anwhere else.:nono:

 

[uk_seawolf]

I will have to try a filter wrench. I buy a filter when I get a new lens hoping it will give it protection, I have checked my bags, lens holders every where I am completely at a loss as to when they go normally you would hear something if it drops.:bang:
It is probably that being disabled I don't have the same power in my hands now as i once did.
Thanks for advice Barry

 

[TheNissanMan]

Cheaper than a wrench try some rubber gloves. Someone on here suggested them to me for removing a stubborn CPL and it works a treat, if it gives extra leverage getting a filter off Im guessing it should give you extra leverage putting them on as well

 

[Nod]

My photo kit is pretty much the only thing I keep well organised. In the bag, there's a place for everything and when not in use, it's in that place. Filters go in their original case the into the slot in the bag, ready for the next time they're needed.