HOYA 58CIR 58mm Circular Polarized Filter
HOYA 58CIR 58mm Circular Polarized Filter
Light rays which are reflected by any surface become polarised and polarising filters are used to select which light rays enter your camara lens. PL (Linear Polarising) and PL-CIR (Circular Polarising) filters have the same effect, but it is important that you choose the correct version for your camera. They allow you to remove unwanted reflections from non-metallic surfaces such as water, glass etc. They also enable colors to become more saturated and appear clearer, with better contrast. This effect is often used to increase the contrast and saturation in blue skies and white clouds. HOYA’s polarising filters do not affect the overall color balance of a shot.
Many of today’s cameras use semi-silvered mirrors or prisms to split the light entering the viewfinder in order to calculate exposure and focusing distance. PL (Linear Polarising) filters can sometimes interact with these items to give unpredictable exposure or focusing. So we recommend that you choose a PL-CIR filter unless you have a manual focus camera which has no beam splitter.
HOYA 58CIR 58mm Circular Polarized Filter Review
I’ve bought hoya’s cir-pol 52mm filter for $15 and was little bit disappointed after opening package. The item was made in Philippines instead of Japan and apparently didn’t have any coatings. But for the price it works very good and it still stands on one of my lenses. Then I’ve contacted to the seller and the manager explained me the difference between hoya series:
Green (~$15) – made in Philippines. No multicoating. It’s what I’ve ordered.
Standard (~$35) – the same as Green but made in Japan
HMC (~$60) – three layers of multicoating. made in Japan.
HMC Super (~$75) – seven layers of multicoating. made in Japan.
Also there are Pro1 and HD series (with 12 layers of multicoating) for ~$100-150 but I don’t see any need to buy them exepting if one is a professional photographer with very expensive lenses.
After learning that I’ve ordered an extra-thin Super HMC filter from Adorama. It works better than Green, and not only about flare – it gives darker sky (once I even could get almost black color of sky). Also it’s made more sturdy. Thin design helps to avoid vignetting on my wide-angle lens. It doesn’t have bayonet on its front side but it comes with special rubber cap which I like very much.
