Polarizing filter with Hasselblad 903 SWC

[juan_mateos]

Hi,everyone!

I´ve bought recently a 903 SWC and like to know which polarizing filter is

appropiated to avoid vignetting. Is it worthy buying the polarizer Hasselblad

offers?

Thanks in advance

[david_henderson]

I don't have this camera and I don't know the Hasselblad polariser, but what I do know is this. With a 38mm lens any polariser is going to give you very unevenly coloured skies because of the wide angle of view. It doesn't matter how much you spend, this is going to be an issue. If you want deeper richer sky colours I'd suggest you look at ND grads from Lee or Hitech, which will darken skies evenly. If you really need a polariser regardless then you absolutely will need a slim version and I'd get the least costly multicoated slim polariser I could find from a decent brand. This is likely to be a Hoya -and I'm finding that filter to be very good.

[cwphoto]

David has a valid point concerning uneven polarizing of the sky. However...a polarizer is useful for other stuff. Particularly foliage. Anyway, I'm using a Nikon 72mm polarizer, meant for a 20mm UD Nikkor. I use a 67-72mm step-up ring which also fits the Nikon wide angle shade. I expect other similar combos would work as well.

My superwide is an SWC/M, but you can figure out a B60 to pol fitting.

[wai_k_ho]

I use Hasselblad B60 polarizer on my 905SWC - no vignetting. You probably don't want to stack it on any other filter.