Helix MagLock is PolarPro’s tackle a magnetic filter system

PolarPro Helix MagLock – More durable and Quicker

Following on from the corporate’s authentic variable ND filters for DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, the brand new PolarPro Helix MagLock system is a part of the Peter McKinnon sequence. PolarPro says that Helix was have been designed to be more durable and quicker to make use of than conventional threaded filters. In addition they eradicate the potential problems with cross-threading and caught filters that may’t simply be eliminated.

The entire filters are the identical dimension. The system accommodates totally different filter thread diameter mounts to have the ability to connect every of these filters to your entire lenses. So, there’s no extra want for step-up rings. Effectively, so long as all of your lenses have a filter diameter of 67mm, 72mm, 77mm or 82mm. In the event that they’re smaller than that, you’ll nonetheless want these step-up rings to connect the mount.

The PolarPro Helix filters magnetically connect to the mount after which twist to lock into place. This helps to make sure that a bit tough dealing with or rolling round in your digicam bag isn’t going to make them simply fall off. Whenever you do have to take away or connect them, rubber grips across the filter allow you to get a great grip on them.

The system contains a wide range of Variable ND filters in 2-5 and 6-9 cease ranges, with some in Mist flavour, together with common Mist filters and BlueMorphic and GoldMorphic filters that emulate the look of anamorphic lenses.

One more proprietary filter system

It’s no secret that I’m not an enormous fan of proprietary filter mounting techniques. They pressure you to return to that firm for future filters and restrict you to the vary of filters they provide. That being stated, the addition of rubber grips across the filter is a implausible concept. That is one thing that screw-on filters – filters that techniques like this are designed to exchange – desperately want.

Regardless of my basic dislike for them, proprietary techniques like these definitely do supply benefits over extra conventional accepted requirements comparable to screw-on filters. The power to rapidly swap filters between a number of lenses, much less probability of stumbling and dropping them as you unspin them out of your lens, and no threat of cross-threading… They’re fairly tempting and are going to be of profit to numerous photographers on the market.

Worth and Availability

When you’re a kind of numerous photographers and need to get your fingers on some, the PolarPro Helix MagLock filter system is out there to buy now on the PolarPro website, with particular person filters and kits beginning at $200. Particular person objects, mounts, defender covers and filters are additionally obtainable to pre-order now from B&H.