So, I ordered myself a new lens and some filters (ah.. I’m a sucker for a good sale. I am going to save our economy all by my damn self, just dangle a sale in front of me) last week, and a windstorm of mess happened.

A) Ritz didn’t offer me a size option on the filters online, not that I saw anyway.
B) I am a dumbass and assumed (you know what they say about assuming) that because it popped up after I got the lens that they would send the right size, like they did *last* time I ordered a lens and grabbed some filters after the fact. M hm, nope, didn’t happen.

So, I figure I’ll just buy a step down ring. I have a set of step-up rings, but it would be too easy for them to just be reversible. Yep. Too easy.

So I hop on ebay and Ritz and some other places to price them. Not too bad, but no one has a set of them, they come in large jumps. Fuckers.

So I decide to go in to the local Ritz Camera to see what I can see. The guy is super helpful, but it turns out they don’t have a jump in the sizes I need. He suggests checking Ritz online or B&H.

So I get home and decide to just call Ritz and see if I can exchange or return the offending filters. Turns out I can’t exchange them because I paid via paypal (what is *that* about?) But I can order new ones (at a higher price, I bet that is what that was about!) and return the others for a refund. So I did.

The guy on the phone was super helpful, and now I just need to run to the post tomorrow to return the ones I have that are the wrong size.

Why yes, my new ones are arriving in the correct size!