Best place to get a polariser?

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Need a 82mm polariser.
Wheres the best place to get one?
What price should i expect to pay?
 
my first choice would be Amazon, not sure about Warehouse Express and other places mind...
 
82mm ???

what are you fitting that to

I need some 82's
 
The problem with buying (say) an 82mm one is that you'll eventually need to buy one for every lens you own.

If you are using a polariser, at some point you'll probably want to use ND Grad filters or just plain ND filters. Whatever system you choose for those filters will also have a polariser as part of the range. That gives you a single polariser for all you lenses.
 
Eau Rouge said:
The problem with buying (say) an 82mm one is that you'll eventually need to buy one for every lens you own.

If you are using a polariser, at some point you'll probably want to use ND Grad filters or just plain ND filters. Whatever system you choose for those filters will also have a polariser as part of the range. That gives you a single polariser for all you lenses.
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Sorry, I don't get your second paragraph :shrug:! Could you kindly repharase it, or clarify further? Thanks
 
If you are going to go with the Hoya option, and they may be one of the best manufacturers you can go along with .... you have these options: -

- Super HMC (SHMC) Pro1, the glass is 1mm thick and frame (bezel) is 5mm thick.
- Super HMC (SHMC), the glass is 3mm thick and frame (bezel) is 5mm thick.
- HMC has a 3mm thick glass and a 7mm thick frame (bezel).

There is also the issue with how many coats the element has, I am not sure on this to be honest.

So, just because one is cheaper doesn't mean it is the same one necessarily.
 
True.
HOYA PRO1 D Circular Polariser (CPL) 82mm Filter, DMC Multicoated, (SHMC, HMC)
Does that sound right? Thats 79?
 
I don`t think the superduper pro thin ones will accept a lens cap.
 
Stil don't know what to go for :(
 
vecsri said:
Seriously? Or sarcasm? Don't want to order soemthing to regret lol
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Not sarcasm at all. Marumi's ae great; very good quality, easy to clean (much easier than Hoyas). I can only recommend it. Try it, I am sure you will be able to return it if you won't be happy; but personally I have a few of them in different sizes and I will never go back to Hoyas.
 
Sweet i'll get one ordered then :D
 
radiantvision said:
Not sarcasm at all. Marumi's ae great; very good quality, easy to clean (much easier than Hoyas). I can only recommend it. Try it, I am sure you will be able to return it if you won't be happy; but personally I have a few of them in different sizes and I will never go back to Hoyas.
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Can you please ellaborate a bit more on why you like these over the Hoya, which are not as expensive as the B+W? Surely no one is going to decide purely because one brand / model is more expensive (more expensive does NOT mean better results) ... but what makes you say this brand is better than Hoya? And which of the Hoyas are you refering to?
 
Wail said:
Can you please ellaborate a bit more on why you like these over the Hoya, which are not as expensive as the B+W?
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Sure. I've had a few black series polarisers by Hoya over years. The biggest issue I've had with them was cleaning; it was near to impossible to do it right without some crazy, specific cloth. Marumi ones are easy to clean, and the picture quality you can get is easily comparable if not the same/better. Another thing is that I remember Hoya filters which were falling off my lenses from time to time, after the lens was kept in the bag - some problems with screw, perhaps? Therefore, Hoya seems overpriced :)

It's all "in my opinion" - I will never buy Hoya again. But you may be happy with them, and that's what beautiful - we have a choice :)
 
Great, thanks for the clarification .. and you may have saved a few of us some serious £££. Thank you.
 
Radiant do you have a picture with the polar in use?
 
I would get it from Ebay from HOng Kong, can get yourself a real bargain on there, just get one from a user with high feedback which is obviously a shop. I've been to those actual shops in Hong Kong themselves and the prices in the shops is almost identical to the ones on ebay minus the post and packaging.
 
Care to post a link to any of these shops, thanks.
 
With so many fakes of everything coming from hong kong i'll give it a miss, but cheers fella.
 
Blapto said:
A good point actually, my Hoya UV filter is a pain to clean. Marks very easily, and even with Eclipse cleaning solution and pec pads it's a pain to stop it from streaking.
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Very true, I have three 77mm ones that I don`t use anymore.I also noticed an improvement in my pictures when I removed them from the lenses.
 
fracster said:
Very true, I have three 77mm ones that I don`t use anymore.I also noticed an improvement in my pictures when I removed them from the lenses.
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Are you saying that you get better shots without the CPs?
 
OK, I get the picture (excuse the pun) ... but how do you rate the Marumi? And, would it be suitable for the Sigma 10-20mm? Or would that lens be too wide for the bezel of this CP?
 
Wail said:
OK, I get the picture (excuse the pun) ... but how do you rate the Marumi? And, would it be suitable for the Sigma 10-20mm? Or would that lens be too wide for the bezel of this CP?
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How do I rate the Marumi? Simply excellent, especially considering the price. If there is anything else I could buy instead, it will be B+W or Heliopan - but naturally not for this money :)

Sigma 10-20 - I've never had it, but I think that if you will use it with the APS-C sensor size body it should be fine. I don't think you'll get a vignette...
 
Thanks :thumbs:

You say that you would recommend the B+W, does that suffer from smear like the Hoya? Afterall, there isn't that much of a price difference between it and the Hoya Pro1 SHMC!
 
Wail said:
Are you saying that you get better shots without the CPs?
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No, perhaps I caused confusion.I now have a Marumi CPL, I had Hoya Pro UV`s on all me lenses as well as using a Hoya Pro CPL, I took then off for a trial,after reading something by RobertP I believe, my pictures were better,they are a right arse to clean, I nearly always have lens hoods on and am careful with my stuff, so I don`t use the UV`s anymore.
 
fracster said:
No, perhaps I caused confusion.I now have a Marumi CPL, I had Hoya Pro UV`s on all me lenses as well as using a Hoya Pro CPL, I took then off for a trial,after reading something by RobertP I believe, my pictures were better,they are a right arse to clean, I nearly always have lens hoods on and am careful with my stuff, so I don`t use the UV`s anymore.
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OK! Now that I can relate to since I too used to keep a UV filter on my lenses and then one day decided I'd remove them (after seeing some weird artifacts in my pictures) and resort to using the hood for front-element protection.
 
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