DIY Baffle for the Lee SW 150 Filter System

You may be thinking, "What the hell is that contraption?"

Well, let me introduce my home-made baffle for the Lee SW150 Filter System.

Which may be of interest to other Lee SW150 owners out there, who have problems with stray reflections when using it - everybody else, move along, nothing to see here.

Under certain conditions (angle of the camera relative to the Sun etc.), light seems to hit the back of the filter and cause dodgy-looking reflections in the image, basically ruining it.

What is needed is some kind of baffle to block the light from entering from behind or from the sides.
Lee does include two flimsy clip-on plastic baffles with the SW150 kit, but I found them to be next to useless.

Having discussed the issue with another Flickr member, who kindly showed me some photos of his DIY baffle made from foam - I set about creating my own version, which based largely upon his idea, but refined to my taste.

I hacked this together in about an hour and although originally it was intended to be just a prototype/proof-of-concept, it actually turned out to be functional and did the job nicely... so while it isn't pretty, it is good enough... which suits my lazy style just fine :)

Hopefully the photos are self-explanatory enough for anybody hoping to make something similar, but if not, please don't hesitate to send me a FlickrMail with your question/s.

You may also like check out this discussion in the Nikon 14-24mm group, for more clues.

Enjoy,
Cheers.

Taken in: Christmas Island (show map)

Taken on: August 22, 2012

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