Filter Reviews

These filters are grrrreat! And you can't beat the prices anywhere, believe me I know. Great products with great prices.

Improves pictures dramatically and protects lense. Top quality and sent in a neat bag. Local camera store had this at twice the price.

Its great for your imagination to have the posibilities to bring out your ideas, as perfect as you think they are. This Tiffen filter gives you the whole support for making real that thing you have in mind. Certainly I wasnt sure of buying in specific this filter, then I start reading about this kind of filters in magazines, and finaly I decide when I saw a cinematographer using it (Taking stills for preproduction). I take my first 24 stills and I didnt know what more to do, so I star to experiment using it not only in the sky (as it usually is used), It was amazing what happened if you turn it 180º in a desert, or in a beach, or 90º in a person looking at a mirror, or taking it in a moving car. The posibilities are as long as the imagination of the photographer. Now imagine if you use this with a Pola, or another special effect filter. Im gonna try it.

This is a very well made filter. Glass with metal ring.
Thin, so it doesn't cause to much of a problem with vignetting when shooting with your zoom lens at wide angle settings.
Overall I am very satisfied. Great value for a well made filter. This IS a circulating polorizing filter. Does a great job at capturing those blue skies and filtering out reflections in water, glass and uv rays. No photographer should be without this lens.

I love this filter. I do a lot of shots from pretty high up to cover larger bodies of water and buildings. It absorbs most of the UV light and makes my pictures warmer looking.

For really close detailed shots of plants, flowers, equipment, jewellery, this set of lenses is incredible!

Pretty useful filter, part of the basics for photographers.

Although this filter set duplicates the UV filter found in the other 62mm package offered at Amazon, it nonetheless contains a polarizing filter-- very useful in saturating skytones and eliminating the glare from polarized light usually seen in reflections off glass and shiny materials.

The 812 filter is useful as well to traditional photography, warming up scenes for portraits and other shots, although for digital cameras the effect can be created by curve, level, or digital filter manipulation.

Nonetheless, having these three in addition to Tiffen's other filter set rounds out the most common-use filters nicely.

Added note: This is the filter set to use with the Olympus E-10's base lens.

THE 812 WARMING FILTER IS GREAT FOR ANY PHOTO. IT ENRICHES THE COLOR VALUES, MAKING THEM WARM ANDVIBRANT. IT IS NOT JUST FOR WARMERSKIN TONES. THE 812 WORKS WELL FORALL TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHY, INCLUDING INDOOR AND OUTDOOR, PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE. TIFFEN ALSO MAKES A COMBO FILTER, OF THE 812 AND A CIRCULAR POLARIZER. THE COMBO FILTER GOES A STEP FURTHER IN NOT ONLY ENRICHING THE HUES, BUT IN COMBINING IT WITH THE POLARIZER, THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLYCREATED A FILTER THAT COMPENSENSATES, DISPERSES, EVENS OUT, AND ENRICHES THE LIGHT WITHOUT DETRACTING FROM THE SUBJECT. THE END RESULT IS A POWERFUL, BRILLIANT SUBJECT ( A GREAT PHOTO OF A MEMORY PRESERVED IN TIME ), IN ALL ITS BRILLANCE.

In reading up on the subject lately, I learned that both films and the CCD's in digital cameras can "see" UV or ultra-violet, which is just beyond the normal human visual range. (Interestingly, bees can see into the UV end of the spectrum, which enables them to see when the nectar is flowing in flowers by enabling them to see the nectar guides in the flowers).

Anyway, too much UV light can produce a bluish image, and can affect the saturation and tints of the other colors. UV and skylight filters are great for reducing haze, and for eliminating chromatic desaturation of colors (i.e., the bluish washing out effect that occurs with distance), and enhance sharpness as a result, too. These filters are designed to remove UV and can help to some extent with the bluish cast. UV filters are colorless and skylight filters are pinkish. Both will work well as far as removing excess UV light, but note that skylight filters produce slightly warmer photos because of their pinkish tint.

Haze filters work similar to UV filter. Because of light-scattering due to microscopic dust particles in the air, different wavelengths are scattered more or less than others and can cause reduced sharpness. Haze filters can help with this problem. According to the specs, the Tiffen Haze-1 blocks 71% of excess blue at 400 mm wavelength. The Tiffen Haze-2A provides greater UV correction and filters 100% at 400 mm wavelength.

Excessive bluish tint frequently occurs in outdoor photography, especially in open shade under a clear, blue sky and near the water front. Unlike pink skylight filters, haze filters are yellowish--the opposite visual color complement to blue, which allows it to counteract a bluish effect.

I'd like to thank C-K's digital camera page at Michigan Technical University for much of this information.