B+W 58mm Clear UV Haze with Single Coating (010)

by B&W

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000BZL67
• Item model number: 65-070113
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #45 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Filters > Skylight & UV Filters
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 13, 2006

Product Description

Size: 58mm

From the Manufacturer

Protect Your Lens while Reducing UV Exposure

This UV Filter blocks the invisible Ultra Violet component of light from the sky, which can cause blur and to which many color films react with a blue cast. These filters should be called UV-Blocking Filters, because there are filters for technical applications that pass UV radiation and block all the other wavelengths. Nevertheless, the short term “UV Filter” has become established among photographers. UV Filters are ideal for photography in high altitudes (in the mountains), by the sea and in regions with very clean air. The pictures gain brilliance and disturbing blue casts are avoided. Because the glass is colorless, color rendition is not altered, aside from the elimination of the unwanted blue cast, and no increase in exposure is required. That makes a UV Filter very suitable as protection of the front element of the taking lens against dust, flying sand, sea water spray and the like, and it can be kept on the lens at all times. It is recommended for analog color and black-and-white as well as digital photography.

Coated to Improve Image Quality

Each glass surface is vacuum coated with one layer of Anti-Reflection coating. This single layer helps to prevent internal ghosting and reflections. It also improves light transmission from approximately 92% (uncoated glass) to over 98%.

Side view of F-Pro Mount.
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F-Pro Brass Filter Mount

This filter uses our standard B+W F-Pro filter mount, which has a front accessory thread and is made of brass. Compared to the earlier standard mount, the F-Pro mount, introduced in 2001, has become thinner. Now it can be used with wide angle lenses, including most 24mm focal lengths on a full frame body, without vignetting. Another advantage of the F-Pro mount is its modified retaining ring, which is no longer threaded in from the front, but holds the filter glass in place from the back. When removing a filter or lens hood that has been screwed on too tight to the filter, the retaining ring is not at risk of loosening.

Product Description

High Quality German Filters

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent glass, no flares or artifacts, January 7, 2010

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A. Rabun "verelse" (U.S.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: B+W 67mm Clear UV Haze with Single Coating (010) (Electronics)

I was using an Quantaray Pro Digital filter and getting green spots from flares even with a hood. The lens was a Canon 70-200mm f/4L and it can flare sometimes without a hood, but the Quantaray filter created strange artifacts even with the hood. I switched to this B+W filter and no problems since.

I have switched entirely to B+W for all my filters except for some Cokin specialty filters which I don't want to buy for each camera and lens.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Prosumer Filters, October 17, 2004

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Glynn Clapsaddle "[e-mail]" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: B+W 37mm Clear UV Haze with Single Coating (010) (Electronics)

I have purchased filters made by Tiffen, Hoya, Heliopan, and B+W. B+W filters are made by Schneider optics, the same company that now owns Century Precision Optics. The Century lenses are the best out there, and the B+W filters meet the top standards as well. The metal frame on the filter is very solid and strong, I once had a Tiffen filter that got bent when trying to attach a wide angle lens onto it. And, trust me, I did not force it. The B+W is much heavier and more solid, the glass seems to have more quality and density to it as well. As for the performance, it is much clearer than the competitors and definitely performs better under high-resolution situations. No color distortion or image quality distortion whatsoever. From now on, B+W filters are the only ones that I will buy. I just wish that Amazon carried more of them.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars daytime? yes; all around general protection? not quite, May 31, 2008

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Mr. Hunchback "Mr. Hunchback" (ann arbor, mi United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: B+W 52mm Clear UV Haze with Single Coating (010) (Electronics)

I bought this filter for my new 50mm f/1.4 lens. Great for daytime shots, but creates ungodly flare at night. It mirrors streetlights and even bright stars onto the opposite side of the picture, so all my night shots look like there's UFOs flying around in them. If you need to point the lens into bright lights - which always creates problems - you'll need to remove this filter lest it compound those problems.

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