B + W 77mm Kaesemann Circular Polarizer Coated Glass Filter
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of B + W 77mm Kaesemann Circular Polarizer Coated Glass Filter
Customer Review: Works like magic
Summary: 5 Stars
I just received this polarizer in the mail today and I am blown away by its effectiveness. This is the first polarizer I've ever owned so I'm not an expert, but I think it is definately worth the price. I will upload some photos for demonstration.
The polarizer itself feels extremely solid and well-built, and looks beautiful for what it's worth. It is extremely easy to use, and fun to experiment with. The rotating ring spins very smoothly.
I highly recommend this product for any photographer, especially if you do landscape photography. I think it is a terrific investment.
Customer Review: Top of the line Circ. Polarizer.
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have quality glass, like the Canon L series, then you need quality filters. the B+W are made from ground optical glass, not a piece of plain glass like as you see in the tiffen and hoyas filters (even the expensive ones are still cheap grade glass). Only B+W and Heliopan put the time and $$ into making filters that are designed to be used with your quality lenses and not distort and reduce the optical quality of them. I have 2 MRC, 1 Kaesemann, and 1 "plain" or Normal one, and I love them. I have a Heliopan as well, and I prefer the B+W a little bit more as its a brass ring and not aluminum and thus does not bind up as easy, and thats important when you want to change filters quickly! If you use a cheap filter on a pro grade lens, you are wasting your money, on the lens and the filter as the filter just hurt your image quality, and thus you lowered the quality of your lens! In filters, like lenses, you get what you pay for!!!
I shoot in all kinda of weather conditions, from sunny and warm, to windy and cold or snowy, and I have never had any major issues with any of my B+W filters acting up! I prefer the MRC or even the Kaesemann over the entry level one, but even their entry level one is ground glass, so you still get a great quality filter at that price point.
Customer Review: Best Circular Polarizer Money Can Buy
Summary: 5 Stars
My title says it all. If you spend L-series money on lenses, why not get the best filters?
B + W and Heliopan are made by Schneider Optics and are the best money can buy.
It's an expensive filter, but it will be the last 77mm circular polarizer I'll ever buy, unless this one is lost or damaged. It's nice to know that I cannot upgrade from this product.
Customer Review: B + W 77mm Kaesemann Circular Polarizer Coated Glass Filter
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent filter!
I have had many filters in the course of almost 50 Years photography, including numerous Polarizer filters. This one however is astounding in results and Quality. I have (due to special circumstances) been lucky enough to be able to shoot and compare shots with this one, and other shots taken immediately after that with a selection of other brands!
This one however was a clear winner, NO doubt about it!
It is a little more in price, but in my estimation it is worth it.
Customer Review: Simply phenomenal!
Summary: 5 Stars
Couldn't agree with "Surfdog's" review more. There is simply nothing to touch it, and believe me, in 38 years of photography, I've tried 'em all!
It's actually difficult to describe in words just how different this Kaesemann style of PL filter is from a regular one (B+W's other versions included). Two people may differ on their idea of the true color of a banana..... it's that kind of situation. But in my humble opinion, it does what every other polarizer does, only a heck of a lot more accurately.
I've been using Kenko's SMC versions, plus a standard B+W coated model for some years now, and although both are certainly very well made, they do have a tendency toward a slight color distortion, the Kenko in particular leaning toward a slightly purplish sky. However, with the purchase of this Kaesemann quite a while back, I discovered just how beautiful blue skies really can be! Not your overly-saturated Postcard type-blue, but an indescribable colour that takes your breath away.
HELIOPAN (who use the world famous Schott glass) have an equally good Kaesemann Polarizer, but it's considerably dearer for what is essentially the same style item, and although both have brass rings, the one on the B+W version tends not to bind quite so easily.
Expensive maybe, but the B+W version is incomparable in my view. Worth every cent.
February 2008 Supplement :
One word of warning. Take it very carefully when cleaning this filter, especially if you're inclined to use cleaning fluid & tissue. It scratches and marks far more easily than any other PL-C I've ever come across, and half the time, you just seem to be moving that oily cleaning fluid blur from one place to another !
Tread lightly, and use the blower brush as much as possible!
Otherwise, it's proving to be every bit as good as I first elaborated.