Heliopan 86mm Slim Mount, Wide Angle Circular Polarizer Filter, SH-PMC 16 Layer Super Hard Multi-Coated

From enhancing your photography skills to capturing breathtaking images, the 86mm Slim Mount, Wide Angle Circular Polarizer Filter, SH-PMC 16 Layer Super Hard Multi-Coated is an essential tool for every photographer. This high-quality, durable filter is designed to increase your picture-taking possibilities, whether you're using black and white or color film.

Unlike colored filters, this innovative polarizer filter maintains the original colors in your photographs while effectively increasing contrast and color saturation. It works by manipulating natural light, which spreads in a wave form in all directions. Sunlight, which is polarized and has high color purity, often scatters when passing through the atmosphere, resulting in a blush gray haze over all colors. This versatile filter reduces or eliminates this effect, enhancing the vibrancy of your images.

When light falls at an angle of approximately 35 degrees onto a reflecting surface such as water, glass, or plastic, it becomes reflected and polarized. This filter, when properly oriented, absorbs these reflections, allowing the true colors to reach the film. As a result, water surfaces become transparent, and clouds appear more saturated.

The light loss of this polarizer filter varies between 1 and 1.5 F stops, which can be manually or automatically corrected depending on your camera type. The filter consists of a neutral color foil cemented between two plane parallel glass discs, constructed to allow light rays to pass only in one plane.

The filter is mounted in a calibrated rotating ring, making it easy to set the desired position and effect. With an SLR, you can see the result in the finder, while with viewfinder type cameras, you can hold the polarizer in front of your eye and turn it to see the desired effect.

This circular polarizer filter is also equipped with a second component, a 1/4 wave plate in its construction. This plate sets the polarized light in rotation, allowing it to pass without interruption through the measuring system and give proper measurements. This makes it an excellent choice for camera systems with built-in light measuring systems that use light passed through the mirror via a beam splitter, as well as for auto-focus lenses in video cameras.

In summary, the 86mm Slim Mount, Wide Angle Circular Polarizer Filter, SH-PMC 16 Layer Super Hard Multi-Coated is a versatile and effective tool for photographers seeking to improve image quality and capture stunning, true-to-life photographs.