What filters fit the Voigtländer Super Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5 with its built-in hood?
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I have a Voigtländer Super Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5 with a built-in lens hood. The manual says it has 52mm filter threads, but when I tried ordinary screw-in ND filters and step rings, they would not fit because the filter rim or ring hit the hood before threading in.
Do I need a special type of filter or adapter for this lens? If standard 52mm filters don’t clear the hood, what filter systems are known to work?
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12y ago
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Ken Rockwell talks a bit about your threading issue here.
He seems to think this is the standard 52mm thread, which Canon/Nikon fans would be familiar with, but Leica fans would think was quite unique.
Ken is usually right about these things.
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This appears to be a clearance issue caused by the built-in hood, not necessarily the thread size being wrong. One community answer notes that the lens uses a standard 52mm thread, but many normal screw-in filters have rims that are too thick or too wide to fit inside the hood opening.
A proven workaround from the answers is to use a dedicated holder/adapter system made for the Voigtländer 15mm, such as the Bombo/Laser100 setup, which lets you use 100mm filters (for example, Cokin Z-size style filters).
So yes: you may need a special low-clearance adapter or a dedicated filter holder designed specifically for this lens. Standard 52mm screw-in filters may not physically fit even though the thread spec is 52mm.
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