Re: Stuck filter

[Roger Eichhorn <eichhorn@xxxxxx>]

My 70 to 300mm Canon lens fell off a small table (about 16 in high.)  The filter shattered and the filter rim was slightly bent.  Nothing I tried including a pair of pliers worked.  My son put on a pair of heavy leather work gloves and twisted it off.  A new filter attached perfectly.  I don't think a plastic filter wrench would have worked, but I didn't have one anyway. 

Roger

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On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:37 PM, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Filter wrenches would definitely be the best.  I have thought off an on over the years I might pick up a set, but it so seldom that one actually gets stuck that I just never bothered.  More often than not, I am having one fall off rather than can't get it off.  Just didn't figure it would be worth the investment, but I didn't know then a set of filter wrenches is a $5 item.  That makes far more sense.

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Subject: Re: Stuck filter
From: Richard Martin <marphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, July 29, 2011 11:08 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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I use these:

http://tinyurl.com/32zchz

Richard