My Favorite Camera Accessory Ever

Accessories can help streamline your photography, and sometimes they can greatly reduce frustration. That’s certainly the case with my favorite camera accessory ever, the XUME filter adapters from Manfrotto, which make it amazingly easy to attach a filter to a lens.

Xume Adapters in Episode 1 of Tim Grey TV

A XUME adapter involves two pieces. One piece screws on to the front of the lens like a filter otherwise would, and the other screws onto the filter you want to use with that lens. Both pieces have a magnet, so that once installed the filter can be attached to the lens simply by putting into position. The magnets hold the filter in place, and you save time and frustration that would otherwise be involved with screwing a filter onto a lens.

I recommend getting one or more XUME adapter kits, which includes one lens adapter and two filter holders, such as the 77mm size found here:

http://timgrey.me/go-xume

And you can see the XUME adapters in use in the first episode of Tim Grey TV here: