Tiffen 77mm UV Protection Filter by Tiffen
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Digital camera reviews of Tiffen 77mm UV Protection Filter
Digital camera Review: 77mm UV Lens
Summary: 4 Stars
I just bought an expensive Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 lens. I wanted to protect my investment. The Tiffen 77mm UV filter has worked great. I have seen no issues with having the lens covered with the Tiffen UV filter.Digital camera Review: AMAZON sent me a defective one
Summary: 3 Stars
Amazon sent me a defective one. The filter came a little scratched on the rim. Returning it to amazon. I am great fan of B+W. I thought I would try this since this is cheaper than B+W. But looks like I will go back to my B+W.Digital camera Review: Always Great Filters
Summary: 5 Stars
I've never expereinced a issue with the Tiffen filters.
I have this one on a Sigma 10 - 20mm with no vignetting.
Digital camera Review: Amazing Blue Skies!
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this filter for my newly purchased Canon 17-40mm f/4L lens. It's a winning combination. The colors are magnificent, the blues in the sky amazing and no negative impact on IQ. Highly recommended this filter! Don't even hesitate - get it :)Digital camera Review: Avoid this cheap "Protective" filter
Summary: 1 Stars
Any lens that accepts a filter this large is fairly expensive. Putting a non-multi-coated filter in front of it will badly affect your image quality. Why?
Unlike film cameras, a digital camera sensor has a flat glass "low-pass" filter (LPF) in front of it. A certain percentage of light striking this LPF will be reflected back into the lens. Any flat glass surface in front of the lens will reflect back, creating multiple images of the reflection. This is somewhat like the effect you see when you place two mirrors facing each other. You see multiple copies of yourself reflected in the mirror.
For this reason, when shooting into any light source, pros will not put any filter in front of their lens. Look around you and you will see all sorts of light sources (light bulbs, LEDs in power-on indicators, shinny reflections) so you are almost always shooting with something in the picture that can cause ghosts.
If you must have a filter, then it should be a high quality multi-coated filter. The multi-layer coating minimizes the reflections (but doesn't completely eliminate them).
This filter does NOT have multi-coating and will create internal reflections, ghosts and reduced contrast. I suggest you either get a good multi-coated filter or go without. I'm a pro and no longer use any "protective" filters since the switch to digital. Modern lens glass is far stronger than the thin flat filters and I've never damaged a front element in 30 years.
There are others that disagree with my opinion, but cost of a high quality 77mm filter can be over $100. Better to save that money into a lens repair fund, which could be used for any kind of damage. A lens hood does a better job of protection than a filter, and reduces flair with no side effects. I suggest B+W brand filters if you must have one.
And protection? Thin flat glass is easily broken, while a thick glass dome (the front of a lens) can be quite strong. So stories of a filter protecting a lens because it broke and the lens didn't, are usually of little value. Believe me, I've tested this on an Instron test machine at a client's lab. It is shocking how weak these things are.
So don't fall for the old camera store salesman's trick of suggesting "protective" filters. They were high-profit items, and were OK in the old days of fragile lens coatings. Today's lens coatings and glass are very durable and usually need no protection, other than a proper lens hood (usually included with the lens).