Cleaning a circular polarizer

[jekostas]

Originally Posted by fotogmarc

Are the Marumi's really that good? I've seen little price difference from the B&W's. I have their ND filter and it is good, but I have nothing else to compare it to.

I would probably put the Marumi DHG polarizers on par with the Hoya Pro-1D polarizers and the B+W Kaesemann polarizers, both of which are probably 25% more expensive on average. Not as good as say B+W F-Pro Gold or Singh-Ray's REALLY good stuff, but those cost about three times as much.

The mid-grade Marumi stuff is also very good - when I had 58mm filter lenses I used a Marumi MRC Polarizer and it was excellent.

[wutske]

I bought the Hama's because they were basicaly the cheapest ones I could fine nearby and also because I didn't want to spend €60 on a B+W filter because that'd be overkill for a non-dSLR camera .

I did a quick search and I didn't find any Marumi's in Belgium, but apparently I can have them for €25 at Amazon.de .

[fdexclpl]

Originally Posted by fotogmarc

Are the Marumi's really that good? I've seen little price difference from the B&W's. I have their ND filter and it is good, but I have nothing else to compare it to.

I compared several different CPLs before buying mine. I was able to mount them on my 50D and take a few shots to get a feel for them. I think for overall value the Marumi filters are excellent. I got mine at 2filter.com.