Ultralight case for ND filters?

[chris smead]

Hi there,

How do you guys carry your ND filters?   I’ve been carrying 3 around in the plastic cases they came in.  They’re safe, but bulky and ~3oz for all 3.

Would be nice to find a more compact and lighter solution.

 

[Andrew Priest]

Are you referring to circular filters or the square/rectangle ones?

[chris smead]

Hey Andrew, the circular ones.  The biggest one I have is 72mm

[Lester Moore]

Here are some photos of a 0.7oz home-made filter holder for 87mm filters – would be lighter for 72mm. You could add a catch or tape to hold it closed, or put it in a zip lock as I did to keep closed and keep dust and water out. With the right sized taller lid or plastic bottle segment, you could fit two or three filters on top of each other with a similar DIY holder.

[Franco Darioli]

If your filters are of the same size, this could work :

called filter stack caps

[Andrew Priest]

I have aluminium filter stacks that I got of eBay but I haven’t checked the weight. I like the idea of using a jar lid but.

[Lester Moore]

I ordered some filter stack caps, but they were heavy. Unfortunately, the weight specs are often not available or not very accurate online for many of these accessories.

[Franco Darioli]

The joys of buying on line…

Another just as compact but lighter solution could be two push on lens caps :

[chris smead]

Thanks guys.  What kind of push on lens caps are those?

Im also considering making something out of reflectix…not sure how that will work yet.   I recently made reflectix lens protectors that came out pretty awesome.

[Franco Darioli]

Just generic push on caps, an alternative to the clip on types.

Ideally you would want to try them on your filters but they usually acomodate minor differences on filter/lens sleeve sizes.

They are sold by filter size (49/52/55mm…)

for example :

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/125291-REG/Kaiser_206958_58mm_Push_On_Lens_Cap.html

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