Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22612 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hama
• Model: 00071146
• Released on: 2003-11-06
• Dimensions: 6.69" h x 27.56" w x 34.25" l, .9 pounds

Customer Reviews

Good value for money
Camera film ou CCDs are sensitive to UV rays, although they are invisible human eye. The result of UV radiation is that your image will look bluish and sharpless.

UV and skylight type filters can eliminate the lack of sharpness caused by UV radiation and can reduce distant haze (which is caused by dust particles in the air).

UV filters absorb UV light and are clear glasses. Skylight filters are coloured glasses and usually have a touch of pink. In addition to absorbing UV light, the pinkish colour of a Skylight filter can also counter the excessive blue colour of the sky in a sunny day and produce a warmish tone.

That's the case of Hama's filter. It is noticeable the improvement of the frames taken.

Altough you could spend more on reputable brands (like Tiffen), this has an excellent price/quality relation and I have no problem recommending it to amateur photographers.

Ideal accessory
A very reasonably priced filter from Amazon which has protected the lens on my camera and saved it on many occasions. This size fits the superb Leica lens on a Lumix. Buy one for peace of mind.

Unimpressed
I bought this filter with a new Fuji Finepix S9600 and found that the auto focus would not work properly.
I guess that it is a linear filter, which is not suitable for use with auto focus cameras, as opposed to a circular filter which is. However, I am surprised that there is no mention of this on the filter itself or on the box.