Hoya 37mm Circular Polarizer Filter

by Hoya

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B00009R95M
• Item model number: Y1POLC037
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Light rays which are reflected by any surface become polarized and polarizing filters are used to select which light rays enter your camera lens. They allow you to remove unwanted reflections from non-metallic surfaces such as water, glass etc. They also enable colors to become more saturated and appear clearer, with better contrast. This effect is often used to increase the contrast and saturation in blue skies and white clouds. HOYA's polarizing filters do not affect the overall color balance of a shot.Many of today's cameras use semi-silvered mirrors or prisms to split the light entering the viewfinder in order to calculate exposure and focusing distance. PL (Linear Polarizing) filters can sometimes interact with these items to give unpredictable exposure or focusing. So we recommend that you choose a PL-CIR filter unless you have a manual focus camera which has no beam splitter.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Filter for my camera, August 29, 2011

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Bronco628 - See all my reviews

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This is a pretty cool filter. If you spin it around it will totally change the depth of color in the picture. Very happy, you should get a case to protect it.

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hoya Filter Evaluation, August 20, 2009

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James D. Wells - See all my reviews
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I was unaware that this Hoya filter was single coated instead of multicoated.It is for this reason that I gave only 3 stars.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars filter needs a filter..., December 11, 2008

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Tony Kim (Alpharetta, GA) - See all my reviews
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fits the sony hdr-cx12 fine, but what's to stop something from scratching the filter. would be nice if it came with a cap, or something that could be easily found to be purchased.

haven't had any real world tests yet, but seemed fine.

wish it was black, instead of silver though.