Name: Heliopan 86mm Circular Polarizer Filter
Brand: Heliopan
SKU: HP86CPL
Price: 294.83 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.4 (11 reviews)

Heliopan Circular Polarizer

Heliopan 86mm Circular Polarizer Filter

Heliopan

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Heliopan Circular Polarizer 

Enhance image quality with the Heliopan 86mm Circular Polarizer Filter. Durable, compatible, and easy to use. Reduces light for stunning photos. Shop now!

With the Adorama 86mm Circular Polarizer Filter, you can unlock a new level of photographic possibilities, whether you're shooting in color or black and white. This high-quality filter is color neutral, designed to enhance your photography by increasing contrast and color saturation without altering the original colors of your shot.Natural light, particularly sunlight, is polarized and possesses high color purity. However, as it passes through the atmosphere, some of it scatters, resulting in a dull gray haze over all colors. This durable and effective filter can reduce or even eliminate this effect, allowing the true colors of your scene to reach the film.When light falls at an angle of approximately 35&#189; onto a reflective surface such as water, glass, or plastic, it becomes reflected and polarized. By using this versatile polarizer filter, properly oriented, these reflections can be absorbed, making water surfaces appear transparent and clouds more saturated. The light loss of a polarizing filter varies between 1 and 1.5 F stops, which can be manually or automatically corrected depending on your camera type. The Adorama 86mm Circular Polarizer Filter consists of a neutral color foil cemented between two plane parallel glass discs, designed to allow light rays to pass only in one plane.This easy-to-use 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, while with viewfinder type cameras, you can hold the polarizer in front of your eye and turn it to see the desired effect. The circular polarizer has a second component, a 1/4 wave plate in its construction. This sets the polarized light in rotation, allowing it to pass without interruption through the measuring system and give proper measurements. This makes the circular polarizer ideal for camera systems where the built-in light measuring system uses light that has passed through the mirror via a beam splitter, as well as with autofocus lenses in video cameras. In short, the Adorama 86mm Circular Polarizer Filter is a must-have tool for any photographer looking to enhance their images and capture the world in its true colors.

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 86mm Circular Polarizer Filter

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