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The glass is slipping, sliding around, and the strange thing is it seems to be getting smaller & smaller till it will eventually fall out alltogether.
Thinking of crazy-gluing it to the edges but it goes too much to one edge more - like the complete outer edge is being ground down.
How or why did this happen? It's a good Schneider Kreuznach.
 
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Or the filter ring is getting bigger.
Or neither and the filter just became dislodged inside the fitting.

It's a mystery - how could the ring get bigger/expand or the glass get smaller...?
It would seem easy simply to fit it back in place but a "sliver" or ultra-thin "crescent" open space at the other end
if this all makes sense.
Of course, I've been giving this polarizer quite a workout since I got a step up ring - constantly screwing it in/taking it off - transferring it to the other lens maybe the cause...
 
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The glass is slipping, sliding around, and the strange thing is it seems to be getting smaller & smaller till it will eventually fall out alltogether.
Thinking of crazy-gluing it to the edges but it goes too much to one edge more - like the complete outer edge is being ground down.
How or why did this happen? It's a good Schneider Kreuznach.


If it is a Schneider Kreuznach POL, it is then a B+W, and most unlikely to have undersized, loose or ill-fitting glass. SK/B+W would be very keen to learn about a filter behaving this way, and go out of their way to look at it, probably offering a warranty. Assuming it is a new filter?

In my kit all of the POL filters are SK/B+W, some many years old with no deterioration of glass, fit or movement.

It isn't a counterfeit B+W is it?

Older filters and those by Tokina/HOYA and Tiffen, use a circular spring retainer to anchor the glass in place; indeed, many filters from Japan have this; it is a tight fit but one which can, over a very long period of time, become lose. The SK filters are precision assembled; got one in front of me and there is no way the glass can be made to move, but then it's a Kaesemann polariser — nothing is intended to move other than the outer ring for polarisation!
 
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