Today I'm going to show you a new filter system I've just got their magnetic
they're really cool and they're from a company called free well
now every so often a product comes along that I get really excited about and this
is one of them if you've watched any of my tutorials I mostly use the round
filter system as they're small and easier to travel with but the biggest
pain about these is having to screw them on and off the front of your lens I'm so
sick and tired of getting filters stuck on lenses or on step-up rings where I
have to tighten them up as tight as possible to then get enough pressure to
remove them from the step-up ring or the lens as well as the time it takes to
screw them on and off I've also dropped a few of them when I've been in a rush
to get them off the lens which isn't the best move in the world now a long time
ago I saw a video by Caleb Pike using a similar magnetic system check out the
link in the description below it's on Vimeo but it's well worth a watch anyway
he had a set of magnetic adapters which did a similar thing and when I saw those
I was really excited by those however I couldn't get hold of these even though I
wanted to I think at the time they were only available in the United States so
when the company free well got in contact and wanted me to test their
filters out once I saw that they use this magnetic system I jumped at the
chance now instead of it being an adapter that you attach to your filters
the magnet is built into the filter and this is pretty cool in a few different
ways the most obvious one being the speed at which you can change these
filters it's as easy as that the other cool thing is that with every
filter they supply you with a lens cap and not any old lens cap a magnetic one
so it has a much lower profile the only downside to these lens caps is that
they're hard to get off if you have a lens hood fitted so it would be great to
get a magnetic one with some way of grabbing it from the front to fit it on
it's already attached to the screw bit that sits on your lens so take it out of
the case screw this to the front of your lens and then pull the filter away then
with this adapter on your lens you can either have the filter in place no
filter or the SCAP in place it also has a thread on it
so you can still use your old filters without removing this adapter now if
you're the kind of safety conscious person that uses a UV filter to protect
the front element they provide you with a screw-on ring with a UV filter
built-in so your front element will always be protected I prefer not having
this and they also provide a ring that doesn't have the UV filter built-in so
you have options another thing you can do is easily stack these filters and
they will just click into place with the magnets although I don't like taking
photographs through too many layers of glass I normally keep it to two as a
maximum with the ten stop filter on a 25 millimeter lens
I saw no change in sharpness it's as sharp without the filter as it is with
the filter there's also no visible vignette includes so subtle that I
corrected it with 150 Kelvin in Lightroom which is a minut change when
compared to my tiff intense top filter it was so much better
the tiffin had a greeny blue color cast which is really hard to get rid of I've
worked with it in the past but after using this much better quality filter I
don't think I'm going to be using it anymore free will also sent me a
circular polarizer now one really cool thing they've been able to do with this
filter is to use the magnetic connection point as a rotational plane so you can
see here I can attach it to any of the mounting plates and then I can rotate it
into the position I want it in as it's a strong magnet it holds it solidly for
the polarization there was no Vinnie etting and no change in sharpness as
well as no obvious color cast a color polarizer does increase the saturation
and deepen the blues and get rid of some of those reflective lights but I
couldn't see any obvious color cast in crop mode on the a7 r2 you at 11
millimeters I could see a hard vignette but this is really really wide and right
up to these hard vignettes that aren't any visible soft vignettes this shows
the glass is really good-quality if you do shoot really wide lenses a lot just
get step brings and by an oversized filter I
always tell people to do this if they are on say a 16-millimeter on a
full-frame camera or anything wider than 12 millimeters on a crop sensor if your
widest lens is say a 24 millimetres and you're shooting on a full-frame camera
or 18 millimeters on a crop sensor camera these filters work really well
and there's no soft vignette not that I can see anyway if you want to check
these files for yourself I have left the link in the description below
I've got RAW files I've got JPEGs and I've also got some slightly processed
ones none of them have sharpening on and you can see this in the raw files I've
been trying to get this filter to drop off by shaking my camera and I haven't
been able to yet so the magnets are really strong but I'll be heading to
Wales later in the year and I'll be shooting some waterfalls and I'll be in
the woods and doing lots of different shoots there so I'll be able to give you
an update as to how durable they are after a few months of use now the only
thing I can see going wrong with these filters is if you drop your camera they
may get knocked off I've jumped around with them on the shoulder strap that I
have and I haven't been able to get them to shift yet so as I've said I'll give
you an update after a few months of using them and let you know how I'm
getting on with them and that's about it I don't often get excited about products
but when I do I want to share them with you guys and this is definitely one that
I'm excited by they retail at $99 each no matter what size you order and for
filters like this that's a really good price point you get the UV part and the
non UV adapter mounting screw bit as well as the lens cap with every filter
they also come in this case which is obviously magnetic I'm going to keep
them in a third party filter pouch but for more protection you could keep them
in these cases they are just a little bit bulky so as I said I'm gonna get a
third party case and keep them in there now if you like the look of these and
want to get them I've left a link in the description below they come in a range
of sizes from 67 to 82 millimeters as well as step-up rings for smaller lenses
and they also have filters for drones action cameras as well so go and check
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