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Buying Filters - Where ?

  • 12-05-2007 12:19am
    #1
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭


    I'm looking to pick up 3 x 77mm UV & a 77mm Circ Polarizer but finsing most places expensive, I knw they ain't cheap in the first place but finding some massive price differences ...

    £58stg for 77mm Circ Pol on WarehouseExpress
    €49 in my local camera shop Plus €22 for the UV filter ...
    Onestop are cheaper again but I have to verify my paypal as I've gone over the unverified limit and my lenses are already en-route ...

    Need them fairly ASAP ...


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  • #2
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    Expect to pay around the tonne mark for a CPL in the 77mm dia.
    As for the UV, no idea.


  • #3
    Carrigman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Carrigman


    Try www.7dayshop.com. Some excellent bargains in filters.


  • #4
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Paddy@CIRL


    Roen wrote:
    Expect to pay around the tonne mark for a CPL in the 77mm dia.
    As for the UV, no idea.

    G'way !!! Your after being robbed ! Hoya ones are €49 in the shops down here !


  • #5
    mtracey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭mtracey


    You could consider Cokin P-type filters ? Much more flexible in terms of other lens diameters etc


  • #6
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Paddy@CIRL


    Have the Cokin system already but they're too awkward for events ...


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  • #7
    ThOnda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Cokin? I don't think so... Good for stills and landscapes but not for daily use.
    Check sizes of Pentax SMC filters, I have never seen better filters with multi coating layers. No haze, added reflections.


  • #8
    bp_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭bp_me


    http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=77mm+filter+hoya&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&ga10244=10425&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=


  • #9
    leinsterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭leinsterman


    I have bought from www.2filter.com in the past ... they are very good.


  • #10
    leinsterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭leinsterman


    ... come to think of it I just purchased one 77mm @ Stg23 and one 82mm @ stg28 pro series Hoya filters from Albet at Kea Photo ... on ebay ...


  • #11
    JMcL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭JMcL


    I bouught a Hama 77mm CPL from 7dayshop recently for £17.95. I find them to be fine, having used the 58mm for quite a while now. They've also got Hoyas at I think aound £48.

    On the offchance you're wanting to put it on a Sigma 10-20mm and worried about vignetting, I'm using it and while there's possibly a slight amount of vignetting at the wide end, it's nothing the vignetting tool in lightroom can't easily handle, so there's no particular need to fork out extra for a thin filter.

    Note that the above is only valid for the Sigma on a Canon - Nikon sensors are marginally bigger, and I believe Nikon users do report vignetting at the wide end.


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  • #12
    Irish Wolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭Irish Wolf


    Paddy@CIRL wrote:
    I'm looking to pick up 3 x 77mm UV & a 77mm Circ Polarizer but finsing most places expensive, I knw they ain't cheap in the first place but finding some massive price differences ...

    £58stg for 77mm Circ Pol on WarehouseExpress
    €49 in my local camera shop Plus €22 for the UV filter ...
    Onestop are cheaper again but I have to verify my paypal as I've gone over the unverified limit and my lenses are already en-route ...

    Need them fairly ASAP ...

    I've used these guys on ebay fairly recently - one week turn around from order placed to order received... they also shipped to a non-verified paypal address without any problem...


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