Customer Reviews

Schneider Stepdown Ring for 77mm Filter To 72mm (65-041214)

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FYI. Package says 77-72 Reduzierring (Reducing) and not "step-up". The confusion is that it reduces a 77mm filter to fit on a 72mm lens end. So the term 72mm - 77mm step-up ring is confusing as you will not see those words on the package.

Caused me to return something that I could have kept. I will note that a non-reply by the seller edged me to return. A simple reply would have cleared things up.

This is strong, thin, well made, and lets me use my high quality B & W polarizer on both my 77mm Canon 10-22 and my Tamron 18-50. It is a quality piece of work and can save you a bundle by allowing you to use expensive filters on lenses of different diameters.

Step down or step up, not sure which is a better term. You step up from the lense but down from the filter. Oh well, if you have a lense that takes 62mm filters & want it to take 77mm(most pro's choice) filters you need this...or something like it. This is a all metal(not sure if it is aluminum or brass) step down ring. B+W is a company known for their excitent product's. You can tell by the price, :) but they do. I have used their filters for years & I will continue to use them becasue of their quality. Could you find cheaper, you bet. But for me I like the quality.

The B+W step-up rings seem somewhat more solidly-made than some generic versions, and have a very nicely-done anti-reflective matt finish on the inside (which is important to avoid reflections between the front face of the ring and the back side of the filter); some of the generic ones have a much shinier paint job all over. B+W rings also feature a chamfer on the inner edge which helps avoid vignetting in cases where the field of view of the lens is very wide, and the outer front edge is bevelled and serrated to give a better grip when swapping filters. For such a simple device, it's obvious some thought has gone into these things. They do look nice too, if that's a consideration!

There is not much to say about this product - it does what it's supposed to do. It's solid metal and feels pretty durable.

There is a little vignetting at 18mm on my Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens, but zooming in just a hair fixes this. I don't consider this a design flaw, just a natural by-product of stepping up a filter. Maybe it could be avoided if the step-up ring was thinner, I don't know, but this might lose some durability.

I bought this to go on my B+W 82mm XS-Pro Kaesemann Circular Polarizer with Multi-Resistant Nano Coating. It went on and worked just fine. I used this step down ring to connect that polarizer to a canon lens and also to connect the polarize to a promaster uv filter that was on the lens already. Both situations worked out great. The ring can sometimes be hard to get off of the filter. I have not noticed and metal filings coming off of the threads. This is definitely a quality stepdown ring.

Purchased these brass rings after trying out cheaper japanese aluminum ones. Those were hell to unscrew from the lenses without a tool. These B&Ws work as expected.

This step-up ring works, but when I used it on vacation in Japan the filter got stuck. I tried everything I could at the time, including purchasing two plastic wrench-like straps at a camera store to unbind the pair, but to no avail. After returning to the United Sates I cut a piece of dense 1/4" foam rubber and laid the filter-ring combo on that and twisted delicately but with force to finally unstick them. Now I keep the foam rubber with me and screw filters in very lightly.

This adapter allows me to use one size filter on all my lenses. B+W makes quality products. When stacking filters many times with cheaper adapters the filters will bind (become difficult to screw/un-screw) but not so with B+W. The filters snug up well and come apart when needed. B+W never lets me down.

I am standardizing on the 77mm filters and purchased this adapter to connect my Nikon 18-200mm lens to the 77mm size THIN NIKON CPL. I got this product over the all plastic ones as it seemed stronger and because of the feedback here. I think it was the right decision. The adapter screws on nicely to the lens and the filter screws in smoothly to the adapter.

Please note I am using the THIN Nikon CPL without trouble. Elsewhere, some have indicated that the THIN filters have less threads to grab on with. I had no problems! Can't ask for more. For any other lenses (that are not 77mm sized), I would have no problem buying another one of these again.