Summary: Tiffen filters
Comment: Tiffen has long been a name known for quality filters. Of the lower-priced filters, they are probably the best.
Features:
Most popular protection filter
Provides basic reduction of ultraviolet light
49mm diameter
Helps eliminate bluish cast in images
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Summary: Tiffen filters
Comment: Tiffen has long been a name known for quality filters. Of the lower-priced filters, they are probably the best.
Summary: MUST HAVE for Photographers!
Comment: Tiffen filters are truely quality. Use a filter of lesser quality and compare it to any Tiffen filter. Do this and THEN you will understand.
The sets with case are a great way to cover the basics in your lens protection and create new ideas for the creative type!
Tiffen filters are a MUST HAVE!
Summary: Poor Quality
Comment: This filter arrived with the glass lens loose and unstable in the mount. Poor quality control in manufacture, this was not a shipping defect. Had to be returned.
Summary: Big deal on quality brand filter
Comment: I purchased this filter not only as the "protector" to my lens but for its quality and photographics characteristics. I could not believe the low price, shipping included deal that I got.
Summary: wrong information
Comment: I bought this because Amazon suggested together with my Xacti 1000, however it was the wrong size which needs an adaptor plus another lens cap. So I had to return it and buy a correct one.
I understand it was an automated system that Amazon provides according to the orders, but consumers must be very careful as well. I was in a rush and try to be hustle free.
Editorial reviews:
Film, as well as video, often exhibits a greater sensitivity to what is to us invisible, ultraviolet light. This is most often outdoors, especially at high altitudes, where the UV-absorbing atmosphere is thinner; and over long distances, such as marine scenes. It can show up as a bluish color cast with color film, or it can cause a low-contrast haze that diminishes details, especially when viewing far-away objects, in either color or black-and-white. Ultraviolet filters absorb UV light generally without affecting light in the visible region. It is important to distinguish between UV-generated haze and that of air-borne particles, such as smog. The latter is made up of opaque matter that absorbs visible light as well as UV, and will not be appreciably removed by a UV filter.The UV Protector shields lens from dust, moisture, scratches, and breakage.
