Time to renew the thread on its fifth anniversary
I just got a new
Kenko (Hoya)
82mm EX slim polarizer for my 24mm T/S lens and tried it on. As I was carefully and gently screwing it in, I thought how would I know when it is fully screwed? I mean, with ordinary filters you don't even have to screw them all the way, at least not tightly, but with a polarizer, you'd need to be able to rotate the front part without rotating the base at the same time. As I was thinking that, I felt that the filter almost snapped into the no-more position. Yep, it was firmly there. I immediately tried unscrewing it, to no avail. You see, the latest generation of slim filters is even slimmer than the previous, even slimmer than a photoshopped Vogue model. Now, given how thin the filter already is, you can imaging how thin is the non-moving base. Long story short, after several panicking attempts with a rubber glove, it relented.
So the question is how do I prevent it from happening in the future? Nancy's pencil idea? WD-40 in advance*? Or simply admitting that filter and that lens do not like each other and look for alternatives (btw, which polarizer, those who have the 24mm T/S, you use?).
P.S. The filter came with a 3"x4" "non-slip silicone sheet" included... what is
that for?
* Which reminds me why it is useful to have a man around the house: