Tiffen 77mm Linear Polarizer

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004ZCIF
• Item model number: 77POL
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Produces deeper skies and minimizes reflections in black-and-white and color photography.

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.Linear Polarizers are used with most video and manual focus photo cameras. They are not recommended for auto-focus SLR cameras.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

70 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Vignetting, July 10, 2005

By	J. A. Huggins (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

While this filter kit does a fine job with doing the filtration these 3 filters were designed for, you can be guaranteed that when you use them on wide angle and ultra-wide angle lenses you will get vignetting. Vignetting is the darkened areas around the edges of your photographs. This is caused because these particular filters have threads in front of the filter glass which partially block the light coming into wide angle lenses when set at their widest setting. I normally like this type of filter because it allows me to replace the lens cap, thus allowing me to leave the filter on the camera's lens all the time - one of the prime reasons I like the UV lens - lens protection. The alternative is to purchase an ultra-thin lens which doesn't have the threads on the front, doesn't cause vignetting, but doesn't allow you to replace the lens cap. So, as you can see there is a trade off. Do you want to leave the lens on the front when you put the camera away for the moment, but have to remove your filter as well....what a pain at a sporting event or where you need your camera to be ready all the time. Or, do you want to be able to replace the cap on the front and protect the filter when you put the camera away or replace lenses, but realize you can't shoot at your wide angle lens' widest setting due to vignetting? Tough choice. I've done it both ways. There's no real happy medium....just a choice.

27 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst constructed filter I've seen in my life time., June 1, 2001

By A Customer

The worst constructed filter I've seen in my life time. Extremely thick. Its light weight makes me doulbt if it is really made from glass. The mount ring can move sidewards for about 1mm apart from the glass ring, because it is made from a piece of plastic[...] When mounted on lens, it is really too loose to keep it from dancing. It's already full of dust between the glass ring and the mounting ring before I took it out from the shipping box, which make rotating a painful feeling. Avoid any rotation needed filter made by Tiffen!!!!!! Perhaps, any filter from Tiffen. Go B+W or Helipon, they won't cost you much more but you'll see what a truely beautiful filter should look like. [...]

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice item, but Amazon is mucking things up, September 28, 2008

By	J. Johnson (Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very clean piece of glass. I'm not to impressed with the color of the filter, would like it to be just basic black, but it'll do. I only use filters when I need to, not as extra piece of glass for safety. That's why I bought the ultra clear.

The Tiffen Digital HT Ultra Clear Filter was just released this year. BUT amazon.com has ALL of the reviews for Tiffen's filter lumped together for EVERY one they sell on their website.

AMAZON you have some cleaning to do, as well as you need to put some thought into upgrading your websites search function for items.