Product Description

Hoya Standard (67mm) - UV Filter

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5158 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hoya
• Model: 0334
• Released on: 2007-09-25
• Dimensions: .15 pounds

Features

• Standard Coated

Manufacturer's Description
These filters offer both the amateur and professional photographer Hoya's famous quality, suppressing reflection and increasing light transmission.

Not only that they also offer unparalleled lens protection, too, thanks to Hoya's high quality filter frame construction. All polarising filters are made of a polarising film (or a polarising film and quarter wave plate in the case of Hoya's Circular Polariser) sandwiched between two layers of glass. Hoya believes the filter frame is an extremely important part of the filter as well.

Hoya uses machined aluminum frames to hold their high quality glass, because it is strong enough to hold up to years of use. Although some argue that brass is the best material to use, Hoya doesn't hold that view because brass is a far more rigid material than either aluminum or the polycarbonates that are being use in today's lens barrels.

This means that, should the front of the lens get hit, the rigid brass filter ring will transfer almost all the force of the shock to the lens barrels and mechanics. An aluminum filter frame will absorb some of the shock by bending and at a certain point the glass will chip or break, which is what the filter is supposed to do, protect the lens. Replacing a filter is always preferable to getting a lens repaired.

Customer Reviews

Does what it says on the tin
There is not really much to say about this filter - it does exactly what it says on the tin! Pictures taken in sunlight are more precise and less hazy because UV light is filtered out.

This filter is cheap and specific enough to be left on permanently as a protector for your valuable front lens (much cheaper to replace this than the front element of an L-class lens!). It won't have any appreciable effect on photographs taken indoors etc.

It is worth mentioning that the filter is double-threaded, so you can screw another filter or other lens accessory onto the front of it once it is mounted. The filter has a very low profile and therefore will not interfere with most lens hoods.

Hoya 67mm Haze UV Filter - It does its job well.
This filter basically protects the front element of camera lens and also pictures really come out less hazy ( less scattered light in the picture ).
Human eye cannot see Ultra violet light. Ultra violet light does bounce with other sorts of light and scatters. So if filtered it will result in smoother less hazy picture.

A must for any lens that you use
This Hoya filter absorbs ultraviolet rays without effecting visible light balance. UV light causes hazing and a blue hue in outdoor photographs. The filter can also be used as a permanent lens protector for the outer part of the lens . It fits very well .