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Tiffen 52mm UV Protection Filter

by Tiffen
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,629 customer reviews)

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  • Most popular protection filter
  • Provides basic reduction of ultraviolet light
  • 52mm diameter
  • Helps eliminate bluish cast in images

Frequently Bought Together

Tiffen 52mm UV Protection Filter + Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens + Fotodiox Dedicated Lens Hood, for Canon EOS EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens (replaces Canon ES-62)
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Product Details

Size: 52mm
  • Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 3.4 x 0.9 inches ; 1.6 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: B00004ZCJG
  • Item model number: 52UVP
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,629 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: September 29, 2000

Product Description

Size: 52mm

Amazon.com

Protects lenses from dust, moisture, scratches, and other damage. These filters can be kept on the camera at all times.

Product Description

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

Customer Reviews

This UV filter does it job to protect the lens well. Sidarta Tanu  |  135 reviewers made a similar statement
I get a green ghosting whenever there is bright sun, or if I'm shooting into a light. Keylove  |  80 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
853 of 872 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good quality product, but not what I wanted. February 17, 2006
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
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404 of 423 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Far from perfect December 5, 2005
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.
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273 of 285 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Two little ghosts for every light source January 7, 2008
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.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Works like a charm
This filter does a good job of both protecting the front element of a lens, as well as filtering out excess UV light. Read more
Published 2 hours ago by A. Gray
5.0 out of 5 stars just don't fix to the lens that came with
I bought this filter as a complement of the sigma 70-300 mm lens, but the thread on the lens is 58 mm, not 52, so was a waste of time and money, but the filter itself is fine.
Published 7 hours ago by awful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Must thing for your camera. It will protect the original lense from dust, stains and scratches. Dont forget to buy
Published 8 hours ago by M. F. Sher
2.0 out of 5 stars Not the right size
I didn't get any paper work for this and cannot return it, it is the wrong size for my camera.
Published 1 day ago by Catherine
5.0 out of 5 stars works great
I have these on all of my lenses. They are well worth the few dollars you will pay to protect expensive lenses.
Published 2 days ago by NNPhotography
1.0 out of 5 stars packing is terrible.
packing is terrible. ther is no sponge/foam in the plastic box. the filter is free to slide from side to side!!

the sealing is loose. suspect is a second-hand product.
Published 2 days ago by S. YANG
5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality at a reasonable price!
Works perfectly with my Canon 24-105 f/L IS lens. I am able to use the original Canon lens cap on top of the filter.
Published 2 days ago by Richard L. Kim
5.0 out of 5 stars Tiffen
Results are perfect and this filter gives a save feeling
for saving my lens.
Filter is of a very good quality
Published 3 days ago by a m van der meer
5.0 out of 5 stars It does what it is supposed to do
I really can't write a review, as I don't bang my camera around. I'm just glad it is there, in case something unforeseen happens.
Published 3 days ago by Lee Schlatter
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice, seems to work fine. Threads were just a little hard at first
This filter does its job just fine. I haven't done any real tests to see if there is significant image distortion, but it goes on/off the lens well enough. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Mark Underwood
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