For some time I have wanted a polarizing filter and a UV filter for my camera (a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28, in case you care) but haven’t quite got round to buying them. I had a look a few weeks ago, and was horrified at the prices involved. The filter thread size is 46mm which is slightly unusual, but not desperately so. A little further trawling turned up this set of filters on the Amazon website.
Zeikos ZE-FLK46 46mm Multi-Coated 3 Piece Glass Filter Kit (UV-CPL-FLD)
The set contains an ultraviolet filter, a circular polarising filter, and a fluorescent light filter, all for the bargain price of £9.02 (at the time of writing this review). Just the polarising filter would have cost more than this from many places.
I can’t really comment on the quality of the filters, they look fine and appear to do the job, but I am no optical expert! I can tell you they come with a nice semi-hard case, with individual pockets for all 3 filters (though the UV is pretty much permanently affixed to my camera). This fits nicely in my camera case next to the camera due to its irregular shape.
The selection of filters did strike me as slightly odd though. If I was buying filters my first choices would be UV and polarising, but I don’t think a striplight filter would feature anywhere on my list. A Neutral Density filter would have been much more useful. As it is I would have happily paid this price for the two filters, so the extra one and the case are a bonus really.
So, here’s looking forward to a summer of photos free of haze and filled with deep blue skies.