LensRentals.com – Good Times with Bad Filters. Is a great example of how filters affect image quality. Most folks I know don’t put a filter on top of the lense. I put them on all of mine because one scratch and your $$$s lense is well not so nice.
In terms of brands, I’ve been using B+W (very, very expensive) and not Heliopan (even more expensive). But fredmiranda.com points out there is a review of UV filters. Normally you put a UV filter on as protection from http://www.lenstip.com which does a review of UV filters. I had not seen that before and surprisingly they like the Hoya filters which is a huge surprise they absolutely disliked the Tiffen product.
They apparently don’t make the UV-0 series anymore though. And from the chart you can see there is definitely a difference between the more expensive pro filters and their other lines. At the time of this review, they were the Hoya UV-o and the B+W MRC.
Today, the latest versions are the Hoya HD and the B+W XS-Pro and stackexchange.com that they are both great with the only issue being Hoya uses aluminum whereas B-W uses brass says. And dpreview.com explains the new HD2 carries a longer warranty. It is UV and Protector filters are lifetime and others are five year.
| 1 | Hoya 72 mm HMC UV-0 | ||||
| Hoya 72 mm Pro1 Digital MC UV-0 | |||||
| 2 | Hoya 72 mm HMC Super UV-0 | ||||
| 3 | B+W 72 mm 010M UV-Haze MRC | ||||
| 4 | Hama 72 mm UV HTMC 390 (0-Haze) | ||||
| 5 | B+W 72 mm 010M UV-Haze MRC Slim | ||||
| Marumi 72 mm MC UV | |||||
| 6 | Sigma 72 mm DG UV | ||||
| * | Kenko 67 mm Pro1 Digital | ||||
| 7 | Heliopan ES 72 mm UV-0 SH-PMC | ||||
| 8 | Marumi 77 mm WPC UV | ||||
| 9 | Hoya 72 mm UV-0 – Standard | ||||
| 10 | Hama 72 mm UV 390 (0-Haze) | ||||
| 11 | B+W 72 mm 010 UV-Haze | ||||
| B+W 72 mm 010 UV-Haze Slim | |||||
| 12 | Heliopan ES 72 mm UV-0 | ||||
| 13 | Marumi 72 mm UV | ||||
| 14 | Hoya 72 mm UV G – Series | ||||
| 15 | King 72 mm UV | ||||
| 16 | Tiffen 72 mm UV |
