Quality Tiffen polarizer?

[eric_.]

Hello all,

 

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For my noct I want to make my own "filterview", as described in <a href="http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=007z3H">this</a> link.

 

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I came across an offer for a Tiffen warm polarizer (77mm). Tiffen is not a well-known brand here in Holland so I wonder if any of you use this? How does the quality compare to other brands? What is the difference between a "warm" and a "normal" polarizer?

 

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Thanks!

[andrew_schank]

A warm polarizer adds an 81B to the polarizer. Especially with slide

film, landscapes (especially at higher altitudes) taken with a

polarizer can sometimes have a cool look to them, and the warming

filtration can help correct that. Tiffen filters are OK--personally

they are not my favorite. Most are uncoated, are not made out of

optical glass (yep, regular mineral glass), and I have had a few

delaminate on me.

[randy_samos1]

I prefer Heliopan and B+W, but Tiffen (and Hoya) make fine filters.

At least as long as you stick to the upper end of their range with

what multi coated filters they <i>do</i> have. Unfortunatly, Andrew

is right and the selection of what you can get in multi coated

filters from Tiffen is a bit small.

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Also - where Heliopan and B+W use brass in the rings, Tiffen (and

Hoya) use aluminum.

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/r

[f._william_baker]

Hoya makes a "warm" polarizer called the "Moose" filter named after

the noted American nature photographer Moose Perterson. The glass is

of very high quality optical quality dyed in mass. While Moose is

not a Leica guy, for years he shot Nikon F5 with 400 and 600mm

lenses and Agfa RSX II 100 (one of my favorite chromes). Now he's

gone over to the dark side with a D1, X, H. His stuff is quite good

if you like birds and bears etc....

B&H has the Moose filter in 77mm listed at $84.95 US.

 

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It's also available in 46, 49, 52, 55, 58, 62, 67, 72 and 82.

Good Luck,

FWB

[gregory_goh]

I belive B+W also make a warm polarizer

[jay_.]

Scuttlebutt at camera stores a few years back was that Tiffen's

polarizers were bought in from Japan. I was never too happy with the

other Tiffen filters but the polarizers are ok.

[budc]

This is taken from the Filter Connection site....

 

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ALL Tiffen round filters are made with type of glass known as green

glass, they do look clear when you look through them, from the side

of the glass, the edge, you can see the green tint. Tiffen only

offers the "crystal clear glass" in their motion picture product line

at a very much higher cost.

 

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B+W filters are solid Schott Glass, water type, crystal clear. No B+W

filter has ever been made with green glass. and they never will, I

hope. Quality should always have its standards and the word quality

should be more than just a word on a box. Most of all B+W filters

have mono coatings on both sides (in some places called double

coatings, the double = one on each side)

The new B+W MRC coatings are the quality that B+W needed to offer

their customers, the new B+W MRC coating is as good as it can be

99.5% transmission. the MRC coating is coming on all the Multicoated

polarizers