Circular Polarizing

jchiver · 20 Apr 2007 at 17:50

Hi,

I am going to do be doing a lot of shooting in the maldives in a few weeks and need a Circular Polarizing for my 67mm canon 17-85 IS USM.

I was looking at the hoya filters and man are they expensive. I had a look at other but i could either not find them or they were as expensive. anyone know of a make and maybe a web location that i could buy from that are not so expensive.

Thanks

woodsy2k · 20 Apr 2007 at 18:11

They can be bought under the virtual hammer for not too much.

rpstewart · 20 Apr 2007 at 18:43

Kenko filters I believe are made by Hoya for the Japanese market. Same stuff but much cheaper.

J1234 · 20 Apr 2007 at 18:44

woodsy2k said:
They can be bought under the virtual hammer for not too much.

I got one with a UV filter for £8 inc delivery

danza · 20 Apr 2007 at 18:46

Justin said:
I got one with a UV filter for £8 inc delivery

£8 for both?!?!?

Goes shopping...

Cheapest I can find is £10 inc del for a 72mm circ. polariser. Not quite so bargainous. Might as well save a few extra readies and get a Kood one later on.

J1234 · 20 Apr 2007 at 18:47

danza said:
£8 for both?!?!?

Goes shopping...

Yep, was a bargain!

danza · 20 Apr 2007 at 18:49

Justin said:
Yep, was a bargain!

What diameter were they?

scoop · 20 Apr 2007 at 19:29

From under the hammer; 72 mm Circ Pola, Kenko Pro1D £35 delivered.

Directly equivalent Hoya model on a well known e-retailer, £135.

Well worth the pennies for the ultra slim dark framed model over the cheaper/unbranded variants, methinks.....

jchiver · 20 Apr 2007 at 19:35

does anyone know what the hoya g series is??

J1234 · 20 Apr 2007 at 19:37

danza said:
What diameter were they?

They were 67mm, also got the same in 52mm for £10 inc p&p.

jchiver · 20 Apr 2007 at 19:40

Justin said:
They were 67mm, also got the same in 52mm for £10 inc p&p.

dam i want some

J1234 · 20 Apr 2007 at 20:06

There was loads on the bay last time I looked.

sparkymark75 · 20 Apr 2007 at 21:10

Sorry to hijack your thread but presume that filters fit all camera's, it's just the diameter you have to worry about?

For example, if I just see a filter advertised as a 52mm Circular Polarizing filter, then I can be fairly confident it will fit the kit lens on my Nikon D40?

Sleepyd · 20 Apr 2007 at 21:35

rpstewart said:
Kenko filters I believe are made by Hoya for the Japanese market. Same stuff but much cheaper.

Are you sure of this? I think the Hoya branded filters have a much better coating. I tend to be of the opinion that you get what you pay for, I put a standard hoya on my 50mm and it ruined a whole set of pictures due to flare.

The S-HMC filters that I bought for my 10-22 and 70-200 seem to hold up very well.

Just a word of warning really, it may seem like a bargain until you get pictures back with either low contrast, nasty flare or a lack of sharpness.

Take a look:
http://www.kenandchristine.com/gallery/1054387/1

scoop · 21 Apr 2007 at 08:35

I'm under the same understanding as rpstewart; the Kenko Pro1D filters are DMC coated like the Hoya ones. The Kenko/Hoya/Tokina websites do infer they all coem from the same factory.

Just need to be sure you're comparing like-for-like across the different qualities in their ranges.

Joe T · 21 Apr 2007 at 17:12

With filters you tend to get what you pay for (as said by Sleepyd above). Extra £ brings better coatings. Buying an expensive lens and slapping on a cheap filter is a bit of a false economy.

Saying that, I have some crappy Tiffen ones and I need to replace them soon.