Name: Heliopan 105mm Circular Polarizer Filter
Brand: Heliopan
SKU: HP105CPL
Price: 289.65 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.4 (11 reviews)

Heliopan Circular Polarizer

Heliopan 105mm Circular Polarizer Filter

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Heliopan Circular Polarizer 

Enhance image quality with the Heliopan 105mm Circular Polarizer Filter. Reduces glare, durable build. Shop now for superior photography!

While capturing the perfect shot, photographers often face the challenge of unwanted reflections and lackluster colors. The 105mm Circular Polarizer Filter offers a professional solution, enhancing the clarity and vibrancy of your images. This high-quality filter is color neutral, ensuring that it does not alter the hues in your photographs, making it an essential tool for both black and white and color photography.In the realm of color photography, where colored filters can undesirably shift the colors in an image, a circular polarizer is indispensable. It allows you to increase contrast and color saturation without affecting the photograph's overall color balance. The filter operates by selectively filtering the light waves, reducing the scattering of sunlight that can cause a bluish-gray haze, thus improving the visual depth and reducing glare.The 105mm Circular Polarizer Filter is particularly effective when dealing with reflections from non-metallic surfaces such as water, glass, and plastics. By orienting the filter correctly, it absorbs the reflected light, allowing the true colors and details beneath to be captured. This feature is especially useful for revealing the textures and colors of aquatic environments or achieving more dramatic skies, as it enhances the contrast between clouds and the blue sky.This filter is constructed with a neutral color foil, meticulously cemented between two plane-parallel glass discs. The design ensures that only light traveling in a specific plane can pass through, giving you control over the polarizing effect. The calibrated rotating ring allows for precise adjustments, so you can easily dial in the desired effect. For SLR users, the impact of the filter is immediately observable through the viewfinder. Those using viewfinder-type cameras can simply hold the polarizer up to their eye and rotate it to preview the effect before attaching it to the lens.The light loss associated with this polarizer is minimal, ranging from 1 to 1.5 F-stops, which can be compensated for manually or automatically, depending on your camera system. It's important to note that if no polarizing effect is observed, the lighting conditions may not be suitable for polarization, and using the filter in such scenarios is not recommended.This filter is a circular polarizer, which is essential for cameras with through-the-lens (TTL) metering systems and autofocus mechanisms that rely on partially polarized light. Unlike linear polarizers, which can disrupt the focusing and metering systems, the circular polarizer includes a 1/4 wave plate that rotates the polarized light, allowing it to pass through these systems without interference, ensuring accurate exposure and focus.Additionally, circular polarizers are recommended for use with autofocus lenses in video cameras to maintain proper function. To preserve the integrity of the filter, it is advised to avoid overheating, which can be detrimental to its performance.In summary, the 105mm Circular Polarizer Filter is a versatile and indispensable accessory for photographers and videographers seeking to enhance their images with richer colors, deeper skies, and reflection-free surfaces. Its precision construction and ease of use make it a valuable addition to any camera kit.

I’me new to photography but this filer seems to be working fine.

Good quality

Remember, try not to put anything that isn't made from Schott Glass in front of you lens!  That's what Leitz (Leica) are made from.  It really DOES matter!

Great Filter

I purchased this filter to fit a newly purchased lens in lieu of buying an adapter ring and using a filter I use on other lenses. My other polarizer is also Heliopan and it has served me well for many years.  The new one shows the same strengths;  smooth and bind-free threads, edge to edge even tones, excellent water, dust and smudge resistance and durability.  Higly recommended.

Flawless filter

Great filter

Excellent quality, does not need much cleaning, does not collect dust but it is heavy.

excellent quality, heavy

With today's expensive cameras and lenses costing more than every before, when it comes time to select a filter there are alot of less expensive choices than Heliopan. But, it doesn't make a lot of sense to trade a great picture for a good picture. color saturation and anti-reflection so often becomes the difference between "nice shot" and "wow!". Heliopan makes your image pop. The only thing I may have done differently would have been to go with a slim Polarizer. At 77mm, there is always the chance of vignetting. So far, I haven't had that issue, however.

Quality lenses deserve quality filters

I use the Heliopan circular polarizing filter mostly to enhance the colors in the sky.  I do use it, of course, to reduce glare, mostly off water.  This filter simply does what it's supposed to do and does it very well.  I've never had a Heliopan filter get stuck on a lens.  The brass threads work!

Always 100% reliable quality

Filter is most usefull to adjust the color of sky & clouds

"Excellent Product"

I was expecting a new filter. What cam was a scratched up filter case, open in the packing bx. The grooves on the filter ring had some brown rusty gunk on them and there was a brown ring imprint inside the filter case (more of the rusty gunk?)

is this a used filter??

Used with 18-250MM lens, shooting structures (homes mostly). I use it primarily to block out reflections in windows and produce more contrasting, richer colors, and also to protect the lens. 

I'm impressed by the quality. Rings are factory marked with numbers, which is nice. Just testing it out on my LCD at home, I achieved nearly 100% polarization (screen almost entirely black).

This is the thinnest filter I could obtain, but it still vignettes at 18mm on my lens (not as bad as others I have tried though). There may be no solution but to get a step up ring and move to to a larger filter. 

It also appeared to have been used, as there was quite a bit of grime on the edge of the glass and the ring appears to have been scratch-marked by the previous owner.

I would recommend this to a friend, but only if it were new and not used with a lens like mine. But as for the filter quality, it's top notch. Just be aware that even if the description claims to not vignette, it's no guarantee.

Takes your photos to a new level

I purchased this filter for use on the Mamiya 7 lenses with a 58mm fitting, and for the Canon 50mm f1.4 & 100mm f2.8 Macro lenses.

On the Canons, it works much like any other Polarizer, but image quality reminds me in some ways of the B+W/Heliopan Kaesemann Polarizers.  In other words, fantastic results!

However, my main reason for choosing it was the added benefit of a numbered front ring; absolutely essential for Range-finder cameras like the Mamiya 7.
It does the job perfectly.   

Tremendous value for money at the current price.

Heliopan 105mm Circular Polarizer Filter

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