Hoya Camera Lenses

Since I print electronically today I don’t even shoot B/W film for B/W prints. I shoot color film and convert in Photoshop utilizing the Channel Mixer for exactly the same reasons explained under Shooting B/W with Digital Cameras. I personally use any sort of artificial anything I can to create the appearance I want. I’m expressing my imagination, not trying to duplicate reality. Anything from Hoya is excellent, although I’d stay away from any plastic special effect filters for sanity’s sake, and I favor Tiffen grad NDs.

This is where the close-up filters optical quality really shines. The focal distance has been reduced by roughly 60% without discernible image degradation. This +4 filter, in my opinion, may be the only close-up filter the aspiring macro photographer on a budget would need in their bag. In exchange for the above, the Hoya professional range is without a doubt their most expensive type of UV filters they have currently released usually retailing for over $100. Hoya Corporation is probably the Forbes Global 2000 Leading Companies and Industry Week 1000 Company. They’re made much larger than the thread diameter to make sure no vignetting.
With a digital camera that you can do all of the warming and cooling and fluorescent conversion with the white balance controls. Therefore the only filters I use with my camera are a polarizer and a graduated ND. It works great with all rangefinder cameras, view cameras & most manual focus cameras. You don’t have to know, but they are called “linear” as the light waves developing the back of them vibrate in one plane in a linear fashion. Polarizers were popular back when people still shot Kodak color film because they could help try to get the colors to saturate on the Kodak films.
In other words, the 77mm polarizer is maybe 90mm around. This way wide lenses can easily see round the mounting rings because those rings are made very big combined with the filter’s glass. This is the major reason, and a good one, why you pay so much.
They demonstrated this using a waveform monitor display for an image of two flat dark and bright areas. Fog filters would have let the bright area leak in to the dark area, looking like fog. Tiffen’s ultra-con filter instead simply lightens the dark area instead of looking just like the light area is leaking into it.

Hoya 40 5mm Digital Filter Kit With 3 Filters

You don’t have to use them, but given that they aren’t that expensive but still significantly less than B+W, you might as well go with the best. The chart lists the range of sizes for each and every possible filter in each line. Hoya’s new Starscape filter really helps to reduce the glare produced by the mercury and sodium vapor lights commonly found in cities. Known primarily for ND and variable ND filters, LCW filters certainly are a good choice for photographers attempting to try out that type of filter without investing too much money into them. Against premium filters from the major players, these won’t impress. But for the jobs they are designed to do, they take action just fine.

• This might well be true given that they seem to have a lens filter for each and every situation and for a number of budgets.
• It’s easy to tell if your lens is prone to filter-induced ghosts.
• No, these names have nothing to do with the form of the filter!

The best lens filter brands provide many amazing photographic tools for an array of uses. Current offerings are up close lenses, protective clear filters, circular polarizers, and soft focus filters. For the highest quality filters demanded by discerning users of the best cameras and lenses, the EVO and HD3 type of Hoya filters are one of the best lens filter brands you will find. Optically excellent, with oil and water-resistant coatings, and well-designed filter rings, these filters can handle superior results. Neutral density filters are created to reduce the level of light entering your camera lens and really should not have any other effect on the image.

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Hoya Vision works tirelessly to understand the average person needs of its customers. The result is really a world-renowned range of products providing total eye care. You can get top quality, but these are fine for most users and the price sure is right. For more information, also you can see my post on tripod brands and camera brands. Vivitar Series 1 lenses were a game changer for 3rd party lens manufacturers, with features and quality rivalling, sometimes surpassing OEM lenses. This specialty filter mimics the light streak effect encountered when working with anamorphic movie process lenses.

If I have a lens susceptible to filter-induced ghosts, I’ll use an HMC, Super-HMC or Nikon L37c filter. You can check the flatness of any filter by looking through it with a telescope or one side of a set of binoculars. The image should look unchanged, but even probably the most insignificant lack of flatness can look weird ort change the focus when magnified.
The chart only lists specifications for circular polarizers, UV, skylight and protective filters. Since 1952, Marumi has made fine lens filters for still photography and cinema. Their screw in filters have every one of the most used and needed types in an enormous range of sizes. Heliopan Lichtfilter is another premium German brand, making filters with the capacity of maintaining the optical excellence of the greatest lenses in photography. Not surprising since these filters are manufactured exclusively from Schott Glass which provides much of the glass for Zeiss lenses. They provide some high-quality filters across their whole range which are relatively cost-effective for everything you pay when marked against what you

B+w

is probably the bigger manufacturers. They make everything from medical imaging equipment to large format process lenses. While they don’t create a full selection of filters anymore, among the best lens filter brands, what they do make are great. Part of what makes B+W filters so special may be the precision engineering of each aspect. In addition to the optical properties, the mechanical precision increases the overall usability of the fine tools. The B+W filter rings mount and unmounts from the lens effortlessly.