Product Description

52mm circular polarizing filter

Product Details

• Brand: Hoya
• Model: 0554
• Dimensions: .10 pounds

Features

• 52mm circular polarizing filter

Manufacturer Description
Light rays which are reflected by any surface become polarized and polarizing filters are used to select which light rays enter your camera lens. Circular polarizing 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 polarizing filters do not affect the overall color balance of a shot.

How to select the correct polarizing filter:
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 polarizing) 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.

Customer Reviews

Excellent value-priced filter
This filter is a great value for my purposes and I have no negative comments. I'm an amateur who tries to find additional uses for equipment. Since my Pentax K100D dSLR's lowest ISO setting is 200, I have used this filter as a neutral density filter (about 2-stops).

BTW... if you also have a 52mm LINEAR polarizing filter, you can attach it in front of the circular polarizing filter to create a variable neutral density filter for making long exposures in bright light. Rotating the linear filter will effectively vary the combo from a 3 to 4-stop neutral density setting to a very dense setting. Note that at darker settings, a bluish cast may be added.

Good circular polarizer for the price.
There are better circular polarizers out there, and there are worse ones. But for a 52mm thread, you are probably considering this for your canon 50mm f/1.8 lens, which is under $100. So why spend another $100 on a circular polarizer? This one works great and hasn't degraded my pictures as far as i can tell. When filming blue skies or green grass, the filter really brings out those colors. It's not one of those filters you will use all the time, but it definitely has its uses, and is good to have in your collection.

The quality on this lens is not too bad. a lens cap easily fits on the end of the filter, and the circular ring turns smoothly. Sometimes with these filters, there will be a small amount of haze on the glass when you first get it. Using some mild soap diluted in water with a mircofiber cloth should remove it. Be careful on the edges because sometimes the grease used to lubricate the ring can sometimes get on the lens and smear it. It can be easily cleaned off, but do not use harsh chemicals as they may effect the coating of the lens (I'm not 100% sure but I don't want to find out).

For the price, this is a great circular polarizer and I highly recommend it in the 52mm size.

Why Pay More?!?!
I have no idea why people would buy more expensive filters than this, it works great!