Can you tell what this is?(sorry, no pics)

[bcs89]

Unfortunately I don't have a digi handy but maybe you can still help - I'm trying to identify a piece of kit that came with an slr I was given, it looks like an over sized washer with a 49mm inside diameter, flat and about 1 1/2mm thick but on the backside is a threaded flange - that will screw into a 49mm lens (no inside threads). Once mounted you have what amounts to a smooth glassless filter ring with about half inch "lip" extending perpendicular to the lens. While it has a very nice black finish, the only info on it is the symbol for 49mm inside diameter, and that it was made in France. Given my admittedly poor description, can you help?

Thanks in advance (I hope 🙂 )

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Cokin filter holder adapter ring for Cokin filters.


http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=NavBar&A=search&Q=&ci=9345


Wayne

 

[bcs89]

Wow, that was fast! And yes I do feel silly for having to ask...took me about ten times longer to try and come up with a description than for you to identify! Thanks Wayne 🙂

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

And let's see what you've won, Wayne: the "C" volume from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica; a box of Rice-O-Roni, the San Francisco treat... and that's not all ... a big "hip hip hooray!"

🙂 I have a couple of them myself, and a few gelatin filters --- haven't used them in years; wow, how time flies.

 

[bcs89]

So I guess you dont need another one Gabriel 🙂 - how about you Wayne? I know I dont

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I super glued two 52mm cokin rings together so that the threaded portions are 180 degrees from each other (smooth ring to smooth ring). This allows me to "stack" a reversed shorter focal length lens (50mm) to the front of a 100mm lens for macro photography with my Nikon F3HP's.

Wayne

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Well, looks like I need the "R" volume of said encyc.: it's Rice-a-Roni, isn't it? Me so tired already.

You may want to keep it; if you get a graduated ND (neutral density filter), it could help you for those cloudy day shots, so that the sky's highlights aren't blown out of your image. That is, if you like carrying around filters.