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66-67mm Step Up Ring
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:54 pm
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Today, I received a package from Alex (HK300) and long and behold, the long awaited customised 66-67mm step up ring is among the accessory that arrives. Here is a brief review.

Some background:
After joining this forum, I was very impressed with the photos I saw taken with the Helios 40 (85/1.5) so I decided to keep an eye on this lens. Subsequently I won a copy. To make a long story short, unlike the newer m42 version Helios 40-2 which take filter size of 67mm, the original m39 (usually sold together with a m39 to m42 adapter) has a 66mm filter mount. As the lens is easily prone to flare, a lens mount is much needed. Furthermore, I am a filter person who always put a protective UV filter on my lens so I need to look for a 66mm filter/ lens mount or a 66 step up ring or something.

Unfortunately, I searched through the web, but I could not find anything which is 66mm. That is when I started a thread in the forum:
Helios 40 Filter adapter

Alex came to help by offering to design and produce some 66-67mm step up rings for us.

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Material used:
Same like any of my step-up rings by Hoya, Tokina and so on. No problem on that.

Color:
Black

Easy difficult to mount:
Again no problem. I try putting on the Helios and also UV filter and taking it off a few times and no problem at all. Very professionally done.

As they said, a picture is better than a thousand words, so I will let the picture do the talking.

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This is a really good news! Alex please publish price and available batch.


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#1. 66-67mm step up ring with filter on Helios 40 lens:




#2. Top View:




#3. Front View:




#4. Photos #1 - #3, I purposely align all the wordings together. When screw tightly this is how it looks:





#5. Here is a perspective of the 66-67mm step up ring, 67 filter, 72-77 step up ring & 77 filter:



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Thank you for review! I believe this is a great help for many of us!


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Yes, thanks so much for the review. I can't wait to buy one!


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I don't understand. After uploading 1 photo, I cannot upload any more. I prepared 5. It took me quite a long time to shoot all those photos. Any suggestion? I am using firefox.

Will post more when the upload picture works again.

(Edited: Strange the upload picture seems to be more responsive to IE then Firefox).

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Great to hear that you are happy with the custom 66-67 conversion ring adapter.

Price for this adapter is $15/ eur11 which includes shipping using registered airmail.

see here in the market place section:
http://forum.mflenses.com/fs-custom-66-67mm-conversion-rings-for-helios-40-t27204.html

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hk300 wrote:
Great to hear that you are happy with the custom 66-67 conversion ring adapter.

Price for this adapter is $15/ eur11 which includes shipping using registered airmail.


Very affordable , many thanks!


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Attila wrote:
hk300 wrote:
Great to hear that you are happy with the custom 66-67 conversion ring adapter.

Price for this adapter is $15/ eur11 which includes shipping using registered airmail.


Very affordable , many thanks!


Wow, great price and shipping included.

Thanks, Alex, for your help to special customize a batch for us.
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