Hoya 82 mm Slim PL-CIR Filter

No complaints works well

This filter is good value. It came in a nice solid case and without excessive packaging. It screws into the front of my lens securely. Because of the adjustable ring it can be a little bit fiddly to screw on, so it's not ideal if you need to take it on and off quickly. However because you can adjust the polarising effect it's possible to keep it on for most shooting. The picture quality taken through it was good, indistinguishable to my eye from those taken with the bare lens. I was using it with a basic Sony mirrorless A6000 kit lens. The colours weren't quite as strong as I'd hoped compared to pictures without the filter, but it does help with levelling out bright skies.

Filter arrived in a previously opened box even though it was described as new.Although undamaged it showed some signs of dust.Not exactly as new as I would have expected.Poor show.

Seems fine to me. No obvious problems such as grading differences or interference patterns that you might expect when looking at the pixel level on a 25MB TIFF image. A firm smooth control of rotation between the outer and inner ring. Not 4 stars as I can feel a slight 'gratiness' when putting the filter on the lens, in spite of being very careful to remove any dust on the lens screw fitting and this filter. This could make it hard to remove as I found when I must have tightened it just that bit too much. However, it still unscrewed and is the correct size as stated. Not unimportant. All in all, it does what I need at a fraction of the price of a top end professional filter. I feel a bit mean about only giving 4 stars, but I do not have a top end PL - circular filter of this size to compare it with, which might give better results, also the gratiness issue led to me slightly over tightening when first attaching the filter. My excuse is, I didn't want the inner layer to revolve while adjusting the outer revolving layer.

Like Hoya, like photographic filter. some are delighted, others will complain. It's not bad, well, it's minimal, works nicely with light, good sharpness, minimal or zero image softening. Big, correct glare reduction. Not just for landscape.For the survey writer: do you know that cpl filters are used for product photography - thanks to it you can see the interior of the car when you take a photo through the car window, such an example. Or you can reduce glare from the surface you are photographing - for example taps.wrong question in the survey, it gives wrong product classification.

Ok so I paid just a few pounds more for the slim profile version of this Hoya PL-CIR filter as opposed to the usual frame unit. These filters are enthusiast grade rather than the silly money professional filters but I have used this grade of filter since starting out with transparency film 35 years ago. Always a great filter to have in your kit bag for colour and monochrome work to make skies more blue and clouds with contrast. An essential item for the landscaper and perhaps for wildlife shots as well. The only downside with using these on todays MFT cameras is that the lens hoods rarely have a filter window access to rotate the filter when in situ and they can be a bit of fiddle to rotate when you have the hood in place but once you get used to this, you will get a lot of creative joy. I was using my 52mm filter with s step down ring to 46mm but I thought that now was the time to have the correct size for my front element so I could still have my bayonet fitting hood on to control lens glare. Worth every penny, well made and with a silky rotation.

I got this Hoya polarising filter for my Panasonic Lumix 12 - 32mm f3.5 lens on a GX80. Very pleased with the results, gives a saturated sky colour and reduced reflections. Sturdy feel to the frame.I have liked Hoya gear for years, while they are a little more expensive than some, I have "bought cheap, bought twice" in the past and think it's best to go for the one I know will work well.

It does what it's supposed to do. Nothing spectacular, but it's a good value for money and I enjoy using it for both landscape and product photography with my 50 mm lens. You can't go wrong with Hoya.I must say the first lens I got was faulty, with some sort of crack or scratch runing through the core of the glass even though it was a new, packed product. Utterly weird and clearly a manufacturing error. Return and exchange was no hassle and I had a new filter in my hands the next day - exactly what I like about Amazon.