Canon 77mm UV Haze | 
| Brand: Canon
List Price: $55.00
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Rating:  47 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 4.1 x 3.6 x 0.6
MPN: 8-7701
Model: 8-7701
UPC: 082966805882
EAN: 0082966805882
ASIN: B00021OCRO
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | UV haze filter to protect lens from dust, moisture, and scratches | | • | Absorbs roughly 71 percent of UV rays to improve image | | • | Eliminates bluish background haze that obscures some details | | • | Sits on lens at all times for maximum protection | | • | Easily screws onto all 77mm lens |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Canon 72mm UV haze filter not only helps to protect your lens from dust, moisture and scratches, it also allows you to correct for UV effect and eliminate haze from your photos. This filter will absorb approximately 71 percent of UV rays, helping to eliminate haze's bluish cast that can obscure distant details. This filter easily screws onto your 77mm lenses.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 Good choice for wide angle lenses September 7, 2005
W. Wu (San Francisco, CA USA)
61 out of 66 found this review helpful
This is a good, affordable UV filter for protecting your expensive lenses. I leave it on my lens all the time. This particular filter (L-39 Sharp Cut) is especially good for wide angle lenses (< 24mm focal length), because of its ultrathin profile, which prevents vignetting. I have used regular filters on wide angle lenses, with very bad results. Although this filter is NOT multi-coated, I have not found it to be a big deal in the pictures I've taken. Multi-coated UV filters can cost 2x or 3x the price of this one, which I don't think is worthwhile. All in all, I recommend this filter for Canon or non-Canon lenses.
 Vignetting Problem December 19, 2005
Stan Durbin (Chula Vista, CA United States)
45 out of 57 found this review helpful
I bought this filter because it looked like a good value for the money. I use it on my Canon 17-40 F4 L lense. It's worked well until a recent set of photos that I did at Knott's Berry Farm.
I took several shots with the sun at 90 degrees to my left at around 1:00PM and got significant vignetting on multiple shots.
I'm going to have to bite the bullet and spring for a multi-coated filter.
 Easier to Clean and Replace Than Your Front Element May 10, 2006
Brian Koch (MI United States)
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
I never take my UV filter off of my lens unless I am going to immediately put on a different filter. There are basically two camps out there, those that feel you should always use a UV filter to protect your lens from dirt and scratches and those that feel it is a waste of time and only degrades your image. Well, I tried going without one for awhile and then dirt started to build up on the front element of my very expense lens. And although you can clean the front element of a lens, I feel much, much safer wiping my comparatively cheap UV filter time and time again rather than chancing any actual lens damage. I think for the nearly unquantifiable loss in image quality you may suffer by having a UV filter on, it is well worth the extra piece of mind it gives me.
Does what you want February 21, 2006
Peter Borchard (Boulder, CO)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I'm sure there are those who'd wax philosophical over the subject of filters and how one brand is "much better" than another, but for my Canon EF-S 10-22mm on a 20D, I figure Canon would be fairly good at making a filter that they're willing to have branded "Canon." It fits fine, doesn't interfere with the lens hood, looks clear, seems to attenuate that nasty ultra-violet part of the light spectrum and perhaps best of all, protects the front element. What more would one want?
A good piece of gear January 16, 2007
In the Middle of the Road (Connecticut)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Canon is getting a reputation for overpriced gear when it comes to advanced amateurs or pros. But there are some minor exceptions. This is one of them.
Canon's price is reasonable compared to others. It's quality is not to be argued with.There are several companies I'd buy filters from based on where I get the best price including shippng. So I've bought several of these. I can't say without a quick invenory how many Canon filters I've bought.
Should you keep a UV or piece of glass on your lens? That;s not a simple call, but generally I'd say yes. When I worked at this for a living, I usually didn't with specific lenses. Some occasions allowed for it, but the effect on optics however trivial is real -- bt only sometimes. Someone who knows about when will know. The others should keep it on. I banged up a lot of lenses. Some had bent filter rings. One had some damage to the front element. It was a Nikon lens bought new. It looked awful and worked fine. I checked the optics against the original test shots and they were the same. A filter wouldn't have protected any lens from some of the things that totaled a couple.
Every lens I buy has a filter of some kind on it within a reasonable period of time. In the small number of cases where I think it matters, I take it off. The result is that I've banged up a couple of filters instead of my lenses. A slip that could have ruined a $1500 lens cost me a $40 filter, assuming I objected to it being scarred up. (actually, I repaied it and repainted it).
Murphy's law says it's going to happen. I bought a new lens last Noember and a filter. As soon as I put the lens on the camerra, the dog showed up and gave the front element a big lick. Carefully leaned it off and put a filter on. I'd have that happen to a lense with a soft coating.
The sharp cut matters on some lenses. But others make an equivalent. If he Canon price is comparable to oen of the other major brands, buy what's easy for you-- or this one
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