Name: Heliopan 72mm Circular Polarizer Filter
Brand: Heliopan
SKU: HP72CPL
Price: 140.22 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.4 (11 reviews)

Heliopan Circular Polarizer

Heliopan 72mm Circular Polarizer Filter

Heliopan

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Heliopan Circular Polarizer 

Enhance image quality with the Heliopan 72mm Circular Polarizer Filter. Reduces glare, improves color accuracy & offers durable scratch resistance. Shop now!

Bring your photography to the next level with Adorama's 72mm Circular Polarizer Filter. This high-quality, durable filter is designed to enhance your picture-taking possibilities, whether you're shooting in color or black and white. Unlike colored filters, which can alter the colors in your photograph, our circular polarizer filter maintains color neutrality. It effectively reduces the blush gray haze caused by scattered sunlight passing through the atmosphere, allowing the true colors of your subject to reach the film. This results in images with increased contrast, enhanced color saturation, and reduced glare and reflections.The 72mm Circular Polarizer Filter is versatile and easy to use. It's designed with a neutral color foil cemented between two plane parallel glass discs, allowing light rays to pass only in one plane. This filter is mounted in a calibrated rotating ring, enabling you to easily set the desired position and effect. With an SLR, you can see the result in the finder. For viewfinder type cameras, simply hold the polarizer in front of your eye, turn it to see the desired effect, and use the calibrated rim to set the filter to the same position on the lens. This filter is a circular polarizer, which is required for camera systems where the built-in light measuring system uses light that has passed through the mirror via a beam splitter. It includes a second component, a 1/4 wave plate in its construction, which sets the polarized light in rotation and allows it to pass without interruption through the measuring system for accurate measurements. Whether you're shooting landscapes, water surfaces, or color surfaces, the 72mm Circular Polarizer Filter from Adorama is an essential tool for capturing stunning, high-quality images. Please note that the use of this filter is not advisable if no effect is visible under the available light conditions.

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 72mm Circular Polarizer Filter

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