Product Description

Hoya PRO1 Digital is a multi-purpose fine-weather filter, which absorbs the ultraviolet rays, which often makes outdoor photographs hazy and indistinct. This multi-purpose, fine-weather filter for color as well as black and white films also serves as a permanent lens protector.

Product Details

• Brand: Hoya
• Model: YDUVP058
• Dimensions: .10 pounds

Features

• DMC: Digital Multi-Coated Filter. Greatly reduces the appearance of lens flare and ghosting caused by reflections
• BAF: Black Almite Frame. a black matte aluminum satin finish almite frame which reduces reflections
• BRG: Black Rimmed Glass. reduces the chance of light reflecting off the edge
• LPF: Low Profile Frame. Ultra Thin Frames to help avoid vignetting on super wide angle lenses. These frames are do hold a lens cap
• KEF: Knurling Edge Frame. These filters are equipped with a straight knurling edge for non-slip, easy attachement and removal

Customer Reviews

Not Worth the Trouble
The Hoya DMC Professional UV filter is built fairly well and the lens glass quality as well as coatings both serve a purpose specific to detail work but with a single caveat that causes this filter to lose value immediately. The thin lens is not only easy to break but, as the previous reviewer noted, it is so difficult to clean that the only place it seems useful is in a clean room with the requisite white suit.

If you can't manage to frame a shot to compensate for vignetting and absolutely must purchase this filter, I feel no pity at all for the misery which will inevitably follow. Both HMC and Tiffen try their hardest to market ultra-thin coated UV (as well as a polarizer) filters to the people who want to buy any and all accessories for their shiny new camera's. Don't fall for the bait.

impossible to clean
I can't say anything bad about image quality.

I bought this filter to protect a very expensive lens, minimizing the loss in image quality due to flare. Well, I think I made a mistake, since this lens is VERY hard to clean, and so, you have to be extremely careful not to touch it or get it stained, because you'll have to go through a lot to clean it.

You CAN'T use lens cleaner liquids, the filter will be left worse off because of it. I ended up using a not recomended liquid just to remove the stain left by the recomended cleaner, and I think It might have damaged the coatings.

I think a protective filter is meant to be cleaned constantly. This filter seriously diminishes your possibilities, since you have to handle it with more care than the lense itself.