 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell again, another video today about the Canon XA40 Pro Camcorder. What I want to talk about today is whether it's possible to attach lens filters to the lens and indeed it is. What you need to know firstly is that you're looking for and I'll just bring my little lens pouch into frame here as I have it labeled. It's a 58mm lens and that will attach on. Now what you need to do to access the actual lens is take off the lens hood that it came with and you can see I actually have a lens filter on top of the lens and this is just and I'll just screw it off now so you can see I have it on quite tightly. This is a UV lens filter and as you can see on the side here somewhere it says it's 58mm lens. Now lens filters can be used for a variety of purposes firstly because the lens has built-in UV protection one use that you might want to make this is just to have it on purely for protection so that the actual lens of the camcorder is never directly exposed or no sand or whatever can actually get into the real lens of the camcorder. So if you've been using it as is you might want to give it a good clean and then you can put that on. So 50mm it'll go flush and the cool thing is that you can still use the lens hood you just need to fit it over the lens filter and it should work perfectly. You've got your retractable lens hood as before. Now what kind of lens filters are available in 58mm on the market? Well there's actually a ton of them you can go for the basic UV filter and just use it for protection as I'm doing. I also have here a ND lens. Now we know there's an LD setting on the camcorder I personally prefer to do everything physically now so this is an ND 16 lens and again if you go for everything 58mm you can get variable stop ND filter lenses you can get CPL lens filters, FLD lens filters, color effect lens filters. These are just little lens filters that will fit on top of the fixed lens so there's kind of a myth that because camcorders are usually fixed lens including the XA40 that you can do things like put on telephoto after lens attachments so there's telephoto, macro and wide angle lens you'll find a bunch of different lens adapters available for the XA40 and of course you can use lens filters like the one I did to achieve additional effects. I hope this video is useful if you're an XA40 owner there are products out there just make sure that whatever you're buying you don't need to specifically look for XA40 lens filters because there won't be many with that description. Look for 58mm and once you have the diameter correct they should all fit onto the the camcorder. Thanks for watching have a great day