Light rays which are reflected by any surface become polarised and polarising filters are used to select which light rays enter your camara lens. PL (Linear Polarising) and PL-CIR (Circular Polarising) filters have the same effect, but it is important that you choose the correct version for your camera. They allow you to remove unwanted reflections from non-metallic surfaces such as water, glass etc. They also enable colors to become more saturated and appear clearer, with better contrast. This effect is often used to increase the contrast and saturation in blue skies and white clouds. HOYA's polarising filters do not affect the overall color balance of a shot. How to select the correct Polarising filter: Many of today's cameras use semi-silvered mirrors or prisms to split the light entering the viewfinder in order to calculate exposure and focusing distance. PL (Linear Polarising) filters can sometimes interact with these items to give unpredictable exposure or focusing. So we recommend that you choose a PL-CIR filter unless you have a manual focus camera which has no beam splitter.
J**S
Worked great
Worked as intended
A**R
Really good performance with little effect on IQ. Just what we needed
Works great for my wife's 16-50mm kit lens.She took great photos with this during our Yellowstone trip. Great Hoya polarizer option for the sony kit lens.
D**E
Great Filter
Nice and slim as advertised. No vignetting (at least on my cameras).
E**V
Five Stars
Good thin filter, no vignetting.
D**R
Perfect
Fits my Olympus TG-5 adapter ring perfect. Works great!
A**H
Two Stars
Does not darken sky and enhance colors as much as I expected
D**N
Hoya has always been good.
I bought this for my new Olympus Tough TG-% which uses the 40.5mm thread. Works as expected, which is to protect the lens.
J**F
Good for the price
It's good for the price, but I would recommend getting a larger one with a step up ring.
R**S
Great!
Works pretty well
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