What budget filter?

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I am looking to buy a polarizing filter 46mm but the prices vary wildly from £5 to £200! I am looking for a low priced one that some of you guys have got and rate highly. Please let me know your reccomendations?
I mainly do landscape,street and family portraits.

Cheers Gary.
 
Haida. Love their filters and they're not too badly priced.
Think the 46mm is somewhere around £30 on amazon
 
You have to decide how much you want to degrade the performance of your lens. There's just no such thing as a good budget filter and many people have test results to prove it. I wouldn't buy less than a Hoya Pro1 or Revo which are around £60 for a 46mm CPL.
 
Probably a Hoya Fusion or a Hoya HD for a bit more:

http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/...m-Fusion-Antistatic-Circular-Polariser-Filter
http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/...ariser/Hoya-46mm-HD-Circular-Polariser-Filter

I wouldn't now get Pro-1, as they can be difficult to clean - the more recent versions have an easy-clean layer on top of the multi-coating. Not sure exactly where Revo filters fit in to their range, but they also seem to have the easy-clean layer.

At the high end, probably a B+W XS-Pro MRC Nano HTC Kaesemann:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kaesemann-Circular-Polarizer-Multi-Resistant-Coating/dp/B00R6978AS/

For the extra cash you get a sealed filter than won't let in moisture (which can degrade conventional polarisers), a 'high transmission' foil that polarises with less light loss than usual , as well as B+W's best coating with an easy-clean layer, and a nice low-profile brass mount.
 
I bought a 77mm Hoya filter the other day for about £40, absolute bargain I thought.
 
All polarising filters no matter how cheap are capable of blocking 100% of polarised light, what more money buys is lower colour cast, higher light transmission (not as dark) better coatings to prevent reflections, thinner design etc etc.

So for a play around a super cheap one is ok but if you enjoy the effect you’ll quickly want a better one.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I bought a 77mm Hoya filter the other day for about £40, absolute bargain I thought.
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Where was this from? I'm looking for a pro1 but am a bit wary of buying fakes from ebay as mentioned above.
 
I second the suggestion of a Marumi Super DHG. Tough as old boots!

But NOT their top-of-the-range filters (forget the name). Unless they have changed the outer coating it is VERY easy to scratch.

Re Hoya filters: there are several different ranges. A Hoya filter for £40 is not necessarily a good one.:)
 
One that is not a fake.

It is a major problem with filters,

ignore people who say "its cheap on ebay"

those are the fakes usually lol
 
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