Kase Armour Magnetic Filter System Review

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by Gerard Blacklock

Kase Armour Filter Holder - with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8
Kase Armour Filter Frames and Wolverine Filters
Kase Armour Filter System (Assembled on Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 and Filter frames with 1.1mm Wolverine Graduated filters)
Table of Contents

Introduction

I have been using the Kase K9 filter system for a few years now which has been an excellent system with high quality filters, you can read my initial thoughts on this system here. During 2021 the Kase Armour kit was released and in early 2022 I decided to upgrade to this filter system and give it a go. I have been using the Armour kit for over 4 months now and these are my thoughts on the system. All the sample images are taken from the Kase system using a variety of the Kase filters, there are also some product shots, these are taken recently so forgive the dings, dust and scratches on them 🙂 and there is also a short video (located in the summary and also here) showing how the system works, sometimes video is worth a thousand words.

If you want to skip the gaff and get to the bullet point summary of the pros and cons click here .

The Kase Magnetic Armour filter system is an evolved unique lens filter system that takes a different approach in the way filters are affixed to the camera lens. Filter systems have developed over the years however the concept of how the filters are attached and used has been pretty much stagnant.

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Kase Filter System (K9) Review

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Kase Filter System Review

(K9 Filter Holder – 100mm and 150mm filters @ 1.1mm thk)

Kit Contents

– K9 geared Filter Holder, fitted with 1.1mm filter slots (3 integral slots) **

– Adapter Ring, geared magnetic, 77mm

– 90mm Circular Polariser (CPL)

– Filter Holder Bag

– 1.2 Gradual Grey Soft 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

– 0.9 Gradual Grey Soft 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

– 1.2 Reverse Gradual Grey 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

– ND1000 / ND3.0 (10 stops) Neutral Density (ND) 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

– ND64 / ND1.8 (6 stops) Neutral Density (ND) 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

** Note: The Master Kit comes with both the 1.1mm and 2mm filter slots so if you own a set of 2 mm filters already you can use those as an interim or ongoing basis

Preface: I have used graduated and ND filters for several years, albeit pretty well limited to the Lee Filter system hence this review is primarily compared to the Lee offerings.

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