Good? Bad? Does anyone use them? I just bought two new circular polarizing filters, one 72mm and one 58mm for 50 bucks total on Ebay. Thats less than half of what I could get them anywhere else. But, are they good or did I throw my money away?
Thanks JC. I used to use Tiffen and Cokin, but I saw these, then searched pricegrabber for what they sell them for, and is was a little more than half, so my impluse said buy. Is the glass pretty good?
Thanks JC. I used to use Tiffen and Cokin, but I saw these, then searched pricegrabber for what they sell them for, and is was a little more than half, so my impluse said buy. Is the glass pretty good?
Depends on what glass you got. Green, Purple or HMC.
I use a HMC Hoya UV filter and a Purple Hoya CPL and am happy with both. Sure there might be an advandtage with using the HMC CPL, but I don't see any flaws with the purple one. The UV is on all of the time, so I chose to have that one with a Hoya Multi Coating (HMC). :)
The Green quality is the lowest quality.
Looking back with what I know now I would rather have purchased the B+W 486 filter, instead of the Hoya HMC UV. The 486 blocks both UV and infrared and from what I have seen from a Nikon D2H dSLR the filter provides better color reproduction with considerably less noise. The downside is that you can get whole lenses for the price of that filter.
Just got a Hoya Circular Polarizer for my camera - it looks great and seems to do the job nicely - also an eBay buy. Just won a 67mm Cokin Circular Polarizer for my underwater case (which I almost never use in the water - just as a protection from the salt air and sand at the beach) - it was a great price - hoping it will be as good as the Hoya.
I prefer the German made Heliopan brand. They're slimmer and seem very precise and well crafted, not just the glass but altogether. Turn a Hoya polarizer, then a Heliopan. You'll see (and feel) difference.
I like slim filters, in order to avoid vignetting, in case I want to stack them.
