haze from hell

I am currently deployed on a Naval Ship traveling to 21 ports in 5 months. I tried to shoot the rock of gebralter and it was a hazy day. Pictures looked horrible. I was told to get a polarizer lens filter. I mainly shoot with my 70-200f4/l. What brand filter do u recomend. I am very broke from all the ports but at same time i don't want to loose picture quality. Due to navy lan restraints i cant post the hazy pic i will in the next port. I would love to see if anyone can salvage it. But the main question which brand filter and what store do u recomend thanks.

B+W MRC multicoated, Heliopan SH-PMC multicoated or Hoya S-HMC or better multicoated. I buy mine from B&H in New York, because I 'm usually buying an assortment of stuff. ISTR 2filters.com and hvStar are well-thought-of by others when they're just getting filters.

well i just bought a heliopan uv filter slim version for 56 kunar(Croatia) 57$us. what was funny is they told me to get the polarizer and anything else i want from b&h. So even croatians buy from B&H. im only concerned with the fact that B&H wants over 100 bucks for a circular polarizer and some are in the 300 dolar range.

The UV filter has also been referred to as a 'haze filter', however it cannot cut through ordinary haziness to give you a clearer picture because visible haze is not really affected by any kind of filter. A haze filter can screen out atmospheric haze caused by the scattering of ultraviolet light which is invisible to the human eye. This UV-induced atmospheric haze can give pictures a bluish cast but the bulit-in UV filter that dSLRs have in front of the sensor already reduced this!

mikediamo wrote in post #5750454
I am currently deployed on a Naval Ship traveling to 21 ports in 5 months. I tried to shoot the rock of gebralter and it was a hazy day. Pictures looked horrible. I was told to get a polarizer lens filter. I mainly shoot with my 70-200f4/l. What brand filter do u recomend. I am very broke from all the ports but at same time i don't want to loose picture quality. Due to navy lan restraints i cant post the hazy pic i will in the next port. I would love to see if anyone can salvage it. But the main question which brand filter and what store do u recomend thanks.

you could also try this (i haven't).

http://www.lonestardig​ital.com/photoshop_qui​cktips.htm

ed rader

This is experimental I haven't tried it with haze:

You can try taking exactly the same photo multiple times and then do a noise reduction stacking. Haze is basically noise because it is quite random, it moves and is not always in the same place. So it should average to nothing if you take several pictures.
You can try taking 8 times the same picture and make a stack with 7 layers at 50%,33%,25%,20%,17%,14​%,12%,11% transparency from bottom to up. The haze will be reduced not being always in the same place, the features will be the same and will keep sharp.
Tripod is mandatory of course.

Luigi

well after researching i ordered a Hoya 67mm MC - CIRCULAR PLRZER PRO 1 FILTER for 89 bucks.