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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - TIFFEN 37mm UV Protector Filter
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List Price: $15.99
Our Price: $5.85
Your Save: $ 10.14 ( 63% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Tiffen
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Tiffen
EAN: 0049383099362
Feature: Helps protect your camera or camcorder lense against dust, moisture, fingerprints, scratches and damage. These filters can be kept on your camera at all times
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Label: Tiffen
Manufacturer: Tiffen
Model: 37UVP
Publisher: Tiffen
Studio: Tiffen
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Features
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Helps protect your camera or camcorder lense against dust, moisture, fingerprints, scratches and damage. These filters can be kept on your camera at all times
Provides basic reduction of UV light
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Editorial Reviews:
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Tiffen 37mm UV Protector Filter - Film and video are more sensitive to UV light than our eyes are. This often shows up as a bluish cast in images, especially shots from high altitudes and of long distances, particularly over water.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Got this to protect my Canon VIXIA HF100...
Comment: 4 stars only because it took me around 5 mins to slowly screw this on the camcorder. It can be shifted or uneven when you put it on easily. So, I have to take it off and re-screw on a few times until I get it right in the groves. The camcorder video comes out great.
I tested with it on and off, and I can not tell its there when I watch the video in HD.
GL and enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ok basic filter, but has some issues
Comment: This basic UV 37mm filter is ok for protecting a camcorder lens (really the main reason people use UV filters, I think), but it has two main issues:
1) the filter didn't screw on very well onto my Panasonic PV-GS320. It would partly screw on, but even with repeated attempts, and verifying that the threads were ok, it would never seat fully down onto the camcorder. I tried it with both the camcorder hood on and off, and it had the same issue in both cases. This seems to me like a basic defect. I later purchased a Hoya filter which seated perfectly, so I know the camcorder was not the problem. Ultimately it's not a huge deal, but when it's poorly seated, I'd be concerned about the stability of screwing on something else (like a polarizer filter), or of permanently messing up the threads on my camcorder.
2) the lens produces a lot of solar flare if you're pointed anywhere near the sun. This is not really a defect in the lens, as an uncoated lens is not designed to avoid sun flare (after all, it's just a piece of glass). It's really just a matter of you-get-what-you-pay-for. All the camera websites state that you need a multi-coated lens if you want to really deal with sun flare. I later purchased a Hoya multi-coated lens for only a few dollars more, and did some experiments and the multi-coated lens works much better when pointing into the sun. I haven't used the Tiffen much indoors, but other reviews on this item confirm it has the same issue indoors when pointed toward a lamp, which doesn't surprise me.
Pros: cheap
Cons: poor threading, major sun flare issue
Overall, I'm going to solely use the multi-coated Hoya that I purchased, and just keep this Tiffen as a backup if for some reason I ever scratch the Hoya (since these UV filters are really just scratch-prevention for the main camcorder built-in lens). But my recommendation is just get a multi-coated lens in the first place (from Tiffen or Hoya or whoever, I'm sure they are all good as long as they are multi-coated) for a few extra dollars rather than this cheap uncoated one.
If it was just a matter of the sun flare, I'd probably give it 3 or 4 stars, since it does what any other uncoated filter would do, but I knocked it down to 2 stars due to the threading issue.
Customer Rating:
Summary: For a non-coated filter, not bad!
Comment: I bought one of these to protect my LensBaby 3G, and other than the occasional reflection from a very strong light source it does a great job.
Customer Rating:
Summary: UV protector Filter
Comment: The Filter was received absolutely on time and the use is as expected. I am completely satisfied with the product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Surprisingly good (except in one situation, which it will create internal reflection)
Comment: This UV filter does it job to protect the lens well. The build is solid (metal construction). The glass is also descent quality.
About the performance, it absorbs some UV light. The UV light absorbtion is hardly noticeable, probably the sky 1-A and the haze filter version will absorb more UV light than this lens which is fine for me.
Now, about the one problem which is the internal reflection. I've heard many people say that it mostly happens during night or low light shooting. I found out that it is not caused directly by the low light/night situation. The internal reflection will appear when there is a strong/bright source of light in comparison to the overall exposure (the surrounding environment). To put it in example (which hopefully is easier to understand), when you take a picture of a lamp during nightime and the light is much brighter than the surrounding area then you will see the internal reflection. as you move the position of the light to be closer to the sides/corner of the picture (and not in the center of the picture), the internal reflection reduces and finally dissapear (if you move the light far enough from the center). And if the light isn't too bright/contrast compare to the surrounding environment then there will be no internal reflection. but of course most of the time, a lamp at nightime is often very bright. But the point that I'm trying to make is that the internal reflection doesn't happen all the time during low light or night time.
Additionally, the internal reflection isn't only happening at night. it can also happen in the afternoon if you are taking a picture of a sun for example. basically same rule as above, on how bright is the light source compared to the surrounding area, and as you move the sun from the center of the photo and near the side the internal reflection will move to the side/dissapear (also depending the angle). But the best way is just to remove the filter during these situations.
Hope this explanation helps you to reduce the occurence of internal reflection by identifying correctly when the internal reflection will occur and then remove the filter during those situation (which is not hard to do).
I'm actually not a fan of lens filter (any filter) as I think it will only degrade picture quality as we added another layer between the sensor and object, but I decided to use them anyway for all my lens. And I would recommend everyone to get one of this filter if you don't have any filter for your lens yet.
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