Hello all,

For my noct I want to make my own "filterview", as described in this link.

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?

Thanks!

-- Eric Kragtwijk (e.kragtwijk@hccnet.nl), May 11, 2002

Answers

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.

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), May 11, 2002.

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 do have. Unfortunatly, Andrew is right and the selection of what you can get in multi coated filters from Tiffen is a bit small.

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

/r

-- Randy Samos (samos@lensman.net), May 11, 2002.

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.

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

-- F. William Baker (atelfwb@aol.com), May 11, 2002.

I belive B+W also make a warm polarizer

-- Gregory Goh (GregoryGoh@hotmail.com), May 11, 2002.

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.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), May 11, 2002.

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

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.

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

-- Bud (budcook@attglobal.net), May 11, 2002.