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Tiffen 49mm Circular Polarizer

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3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews) More about this product

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Tiffen 49mm Circular Polarizer + Tiffen 49mm UV Protection Filter + Pentax SMCP-FA 50mm f/1.4 Lens
Total List Price: $537.94
Price For All Three: $384.25

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Technical Details

  • Essential for outdoor photography
  • Deepens intensity of blue skies
  • Reduces or eliminates glare
  • 49mm diameter
  • Circular construction

Product Details

  • Item Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
  • ASIN: B00004ZC9L
  • Item model number: 49CP
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

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A circular polarizer has the same effect as a polarizer and is used on cameras with beam-splitting metering systems commonly found on autofocus SLRs.


Product Description

Polarizers provide color and contrast enhancement. Reflected light often shows up as whitish glare that washes out color in an image. A Polarizer corrects this problem producing deep, dramatically blue skies. It also removes glare from non-metallic surfaces, such as windows and water. Color saturation in general, especially outdoors, can be improved significantly.A Circular Polarizer has the same effect as a Polarizer and is used on cameras with beam splitting metering systems commonly found on auto-focus SLRs.

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73 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The filter every autofocus camera user NEEDS!, May 14, 2002
By Jerry Jackson Jr. (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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If you have an autofocus camera and shoot photos outdoors, this filter needs to be attached to the end of your lens. (If you have a manual focus camera you need a linear polarizer) The polarizer darkens blue skies (if the sky is light blue, you get deep, rich blue) and eleminates glare and reflection in glass and water.

With this filter, you can take a photo of someone standing in front of a window and not have the glare or reflection of the window shooting back into the lens. It also helps you shoot indoors at an aquarium (you can take crystal-clear photos of the killer whales and dolphins without glare from the glass).

This filter can't take the photos for you, but it can make your photos look much more professional. The only thing to be careful of is the fact that the polarizer makes the image a little darker, so if you are shooting in dark light, you need a flash or a slower shutter speed.

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91 of 103 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Works, but causes flare, September 14, 2005
By E. Bukh (New York) - See all my reviews
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This item is either not coated or has a single coating and thus any time sun hits the filter, it produces flare in the picture. Furthermore, after doing more research it turns out that these uncoated or single coated filters can cause up to 9% light loss vs multi-coated filters like Hoya S-HMC or B+W MRC filters. As for polarizer effect itself, I think it's amazing and you owe it to yourself to at least try it on a nice sunny day. (the sky and foliage will look completely different and alive)
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Quality, July 9, 2006
By SevereWX (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
  
The Tiffen circular polarizing filter does exactly what it's supposed to do, and it does it well. The threading fits on my Nikkor lenses perfectly, screws on and stays put. The rotating ring on the filter is not too tight, nor too loose and rotates very smoothly, staying put where it's set at. When comparing identical images taken with and without the filter, there are no noticable distortions or color shifts present.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Filter
Tiffen filters have always given me what I expected from them. This filter is no exception. This is a high quality circular polarizing filter.
Published 21 hours ago by J. Hausmann

4.0 out of 5 stars Good fitler
This filter does the work very well. The only issue when used on the Canon EOS camera is that the lens cap does not fit tightly. For the price, it is a good filter.
Published 2 days ago by H. H. Huang

4.0 out of 5 stars Great For a Hobbyist
I live up in New England and was looking for rich, vibrant fall foliage photos. This lens was just the ticket--I like taking rich, saturated photos with high contrast, and this... Read more
Published 21 days ago by B. Lowe

2.0 out of 5 stars Glass scratched, threads uneven; terrible quality
I bought the Tiffen 62mm approx. $30 polarizer from Amazon. When it arrived it was all smudged and dusty. But even worse, it had a small scratch on the glass. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ciani

5.0 out of 5 stars Great circular polarizer.
For outdoor photos, I would definitely get a CP so that the colors of the landscapes are deeper. As an amateur photographer, its great bang for the buck, especially since I can't... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Regan Cheng

4.0 out of 5 stars Good quality, works well
A circular polarizer should be standard equipment for everyone with a SLR digital camera, and Tiffen makes a good product. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Fr. Francis C. Zanger

5.0 out of 5 stars Works as it should, good price
It is a good product but I was surprised how heavy it was. It cuts down the glare and protects the lens. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Scott Holmes

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
I-LOVE-THIS-FILTER!!!! This makes my outdoor pictures so much better and cuts down on light and saturates colors. I keep this on my main lens at all times.
Published 2 months ago by J. Figueroa

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product!
Fits right in to my Canon 17-85mm IS USM lens. Does what its supposed to do without any degradation in image quality.
Published 3 months ago by Subhankar Chakraborty

2.0 out of 5 stars Reveiw of Polarizing Filter
I had to return this filter because it had no effect on light contol and color saturation.
Published 4 months ago by James D. Wells

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