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Size: 52mm
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Protects lenses from dust, moisture, scratches, and other damage. These filters can be kept on the camera at all times.
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Safeguard your lens and absorb UV light. Film and video are more sensitive to UV light than our eyes are. This often shows up as a bluish cast in images, especially shots from high altitudes and long distances, particularly over water. Ultra Violet filters are available in a variety of UV absorption levels. Reduces excessive blue by absorbing almost three quarters of UV light. Best general purpose UV control Eliminates UV problems from most situations where increased haze tends to wash out color and image clarity Protects your camera or camcorder lens against dust, moisture, fingerprints, scratches and damage Can be kept on your camera at all times
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701 of 716 people found the following review helpful
Size Name:72mm
The product felt strong, solid, and well put together. The glass was clear with no visible tint or imperfections. Although this and another filter (same type different size) both arrived with smudges on the glass. The smudges were fairly easy to wipe off, but I suspect the items are either not cleaned before packaging, or I received someone's returned item. However, I had to return this item since they DON'T contain any anti-glare/reflective coating on them. When shooting towards a light source (light bulb, tv, sun, etc) a green reflection of the light source would appear on the recorded image. The green reflected image was caused by a reflection bouncing off of my lens's green tinted anti-glare coating which was bounced right back into the camera by this filter. If your lens isn't coated in an anti-glare coating the result will be even worse.
Instead I picked up Quantaray filters from a local Wolf Camera that were coated with the anti-glare. They only cost a little more, and the green reflection is now gone. Make sure you look for a filter with the anti-glare
Camera: Canon 20d, Lenses tested: 18-55, 28-135, 70-300
Instead I picked up Quantaray filters from a local Wolf Camera that were coated with the anti-glare. They only cost a little more, and the green reflection is now gone. Make sure you look for a filter with the anti-glare
Camera: Canon 20d, Lenses tested: 18-55, 28-135, 70-300
344 of 363 people found the following review helpful
Size Name:52mm|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this filter for my Canon 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens. The price was right, and I thought it would be a good way to protect the lens, which this probably does well. And while I am shooting under normal lighting conditions (flash or natural) the filter stays out of the way, but as soon as the lights go down this filter will ruin more photos than I can bear, due to an abundance reflective artifacts. If you take a photo of Christmas lights for example you will see the lights again in a faint green glow on the opposite side of the photo... VERY ANNOYING.
177 of 184 people found the following review helpful
Size Name:77mm
Any photographer who has the money to purchase a lens with a professional 77mm filter size can afford better than this uncoated Tiffen filter. I'm skeptical by nature, so I wanted to see for myself whether coated glass was really necessary. I purchased this Tiffen filter and used it on two different lenses and found that in almost every single photograph in which there was a light source, I found two smaller ghost images of the light source elsewhere in the photo. This uncoated glass really knows how to make lens flare POP (even if it's not the lens that's flaring...)! I sent mine back, with the biggest loss being my time and Christmas photographs of family that would have otherwise been very nice.
What made the two little ghosts appear on the Tiffen? Light as faint as Christmas tree lights, table lamps, incandescent overhead bulbs, etc. You name it, basically.
How do I know this was due to the UV filter and not my lenses? When I saw some pretty nasty flare, I just unscrewed the Tiffen filter and voila, my flare disappeared.
Le flare est morte. Vive le flare!
Seriously, spend just a bit more and get a good, coated (on both sides) filter; picky people like myself will gladly spend a little more and get a coated filter by Hoya or B+W, among others. The Tiffen is fine if you only shoot in the shade without any relatively bright lights; otherwise, my advice is to look elsewhere.
What made the two little ghosts appear on the Tiffen? Light as faint as Christmas tree lights, table lamps, incandescent overhead bulbs, etc. You name it, basically.
How do I know this was due to the UV filter and not my lenses? When I saw some pretty nasty flare, I just unscrewed the Tiffen filter and voila, my flare disappeared.
Le flare est morte. Vive le flare!
Seriously, spend just a bit more and get a good, coated (on both sides) filter; picky people like myself will gladly spend a little more and get a coated filter by Hoya or B+W, among others. The Tiffen is fine if you only shoot in the shade without any relatively bright lights; otherwise, my advice is to look elsewhere.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
58 mm UV Protection Filter
I bought this filter primarily to protect my Canon PowerShot lens. Unfortunately I didn't realize I needed the adaptor as well until the filter arrived and wouldn't fit. Read more
Published 20 hours ago by GreeneAcre
its not invincible, but why would it be?
only reason i didnt give a fill 5 stars was because while riding an airplane in my carry-on camera backpack, the filter cracked right across with no explanation while still on my... Read more
Published 2 days ago by C. Ward
Flares excessively
This filter flares excessively and is unworthy of any optical system. All inventory should be recycled immediately. Once again you don't get what you don't pay for. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Dr. James Williamson
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 SLD DG Macro Lens bundled with TiffenUV...
Amazon offered the Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 SLD DG Macro Lens bundled with the TiffenUV Protection Filter, for my Nikon 3100. Read more
Published 3 days ago by Fritz
Causes ghost images
I found that when I attached this filter to my Panasonic micro four thirds lens, it caused ghost images of anything bright in the field of view. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Mac
Great value
This is a great product, a lot cheaper than the Nikon equivalent. I can't tell the difference between the two when i take photos. Read more
Published 12 days ago by K. Julian
photo filter
Nice filter which works well to protect your much more expensive lens so keep it intact and protected. Worth keeping in your camera bag to knock the ultra violet rays down.
Published 13 days ago by archi_jbg
Plastic Threading comes off
I bought this because it was cheap. I kept it on the camera all times. When I screwed in a cheap SEIKOS 82mm polarizing filter, it stayed there. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Dissatified with ViewSonic
Sensetive
Well I got this item last week. I finally took out of the packaging it was in at a photo shoot I was doing . Read more
Published 19 days ago by Joe
Good item
Great UV protection filter for any 52mm lens. The price was good and ordered it along with several other items. Well packaged and shipped well. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Jeff_IBX
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