Which brand for filters?

I'm looking mostly for a protective UV filter for my investment. I'll probably get a polarizer in the future as well. Forum says B+W makes good filters. Most of what I'm finding is 'Crystal Optics' and 'Digital Concepts' filters. I want to protect my invest, but not kill my pictures too. There are a lot of options for B+W at Adorama, still looking over them!

Crystal Optics
Digital Concepts

Alexia wrote:
I'm looking mostly for a protective UV filter for my investment. I'll probably get a polarizer in the future as well. Forum says B+W makes good filters. Most of what I'm finding is 'Crystal Optics' and 'Digital Concepts' filters. I want to protect my invest, but not kill my pictures too. There are a lot of options for B+W at Adorama, still looking over them!

Crystal Optics
Digital Concepts

Ido not know anything about the other 2 filter companies you mentioned but I can say that B&W have excellent products, but they are expensive. The filter size will figure into the cost but a polarizer from B&W will run the better part of $100.00 minimum, a UV will probably be in the $40.00 range. You are correct in not wanting to put an inferior filter on a good lens, like anything else the limiting factor will be your budget.

I'm happy with my Hoya filters.

i only use UV filters and the rest in PS... but I am more than happy with my HOYA multi coated filters

Hoyas are fine if you are mainly looking for lens protection (as I am). I did some tests with my Tamron wide open with the Hoya UV on and off, and I could not see any difference at all.

Another vote for the Hoya Multi-coated or Super Multi-coated filters. I have two of them protecting my Tamron 28-75 and my Canon 100mm Macro and also have one B&W MRC 010 filter on my 70-200 f/2.8L (boy, that one was expensive at 77mm !).

Don't get those "crytal optics"

I agree that Hooya and B&W are better... but you may also want to check out B&H's price on "Canon" branded filters.. for UV they are very competitively priced and I have been perfectly satisfied..

I have 2 Tiffen and 1 Canon UV filter, plus a Tiffen 812warming filter and a circular polarizer.

i use one B&W skylight filter and i also use 2 Hama UV filters and i'm very happy with all of them

Hoya super multicoat on my 17-40 F4L, just garden variety Hoyas on my other lenses as they are not 'L's. Though I should get better one for my 50 F1.8 I suppose.

Hoya skylight 1B's. Both my 17-40 F4L and 70-200 F2.8L have them. Would never go anywhere without filters fitted - just in case.

This brings up the topic - Skylight vs UV?

I've never been happy with skylights, instead preferring UV.

Had my finger on the buy for the 135 f2 last nite and a filter kit including a Hoya polarizing and "warming" filter for portraits. Any comments on these warming filters?
... and the finger slid off and whewwwwwww.......saved those $$$ it for another day.

I don't see any justification for using warming filters in digital photography, as far as any retouching software will do the same in a way you can tweak at your exact preferrence.
They were undoubtly useful in film photography, of course.
Besides of that, I use UV filters on all my lenses ; not beacause of UV, just to protect my cherished and expensive "eyes".

Hi,
My friend and I got duped by a company called Camera Empire & Gallery in San Francisco in October 2004. We bought Wide angle lenses and Tele lenses. Wide angle lense work, but there's a huge black ring around the image that it's just no good using the converter. The Tele lense a Vision Optics Titanium 2.0x Digital doesn't do anything....Still, I'm quite sure that the lenses that we tried on in the store worked!?
The asian man that sold us all the products was mixing back and forth between the stuff, so he might have swapped the products before putting them in boxes and in the bag...

My advise is to avoid buying Crystal Optics and Vision Optics, atleast from stores in San Francisco!

Avoid this company:
Camera Empire & Galeria de Pars
789 Beach Street
San Francisco
CA 94109 by Ghiradelli Square

I'm currently stuck with one Vision Optics Titanium 2.0x Digital and one Crystal Optics Japan 0.45x AF High Definition Digital Lense With Macro.
We paid 542.50USD for two of each and two 52mm ring adapters for Fuji S7000 and two UV-filters from Bower.

Now I'm stuck here in Sweden with this crap.

Now I use Hoya for my Minolta A2 and I'm very pleased with that.

Woth