Circular polarizers, UV filters, etc. Recommendations, please.

I'm looking to add at least a circular polarizer for use with my Tamron 150-600mm lens.

95mm size, and boy are the top brands expensive! I've seen B&Ws going for almost 300 dollars.

I don't want to spend THAT much on a polarizer but I do think I'd benefit from having one.


So if you can recommend a good but not particularly expensive 95mm circular polarizer, I'd like to hear about it.

I wouldn't mind spending around 100 dollars. But I don't want to spend twice that or more.

The price you found is actually cheaper than some of the others I usually go to. You dealing with the fact this glass is huge, they won't sell a lot of them, and when you're reaching out that far the glass must be good as an image that far out on it's own can fall apart do to atmospheric conditions.

$300 is a good price, sorry to say.

D200freak said:

I'm looking to add at least a circular polarizer for use with my Tamron 150-600mm lens.

95mm size, and boy are the top brands expensive! I've seen B&Ws going for almost 300 dollars.

I don't want to spend THAT much on a polarizer but I do think I'd benefit from having one.


So if you can recommend a good but not particularly expensive 95mm circular polarizer, I'd like to hear about it.

I wouldn't mind spending around 100 dollars. But I don't want to spend twice that or more.

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The 95mm filter selection is slim. Waaay slim. The Sigma is supposed to be a decent filter but Moab Man is right, really... $300 for a truly good CPL is not bad.

I'm surprised you want to put a CPL on that lens and potentially lose a couple of stops. I have that lens and leave it bare.


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Photography over water means having to deal with reflections. So a polarizer may make the shot POSSIBLE. In full daylight conditions I shoot stopped down anyway, at least half the time.

D200freak said:

Photography over water means having to deal with reflections. So a polarizer may make the shot POSSIBLE. In full daylight conditions I shoot stopped down anyway, at least half the time.

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You have a good reason for needing one, the water, but the price your finding is fair.

I have a Sigma 82mm CP filter for my Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 lens (the filter was @ $110). Their first CP filter started to flake within 12 months so they let me exchange it for another. Same thing happened to that one. And if you look through my threads for 2013 and 2014, I didn't get out much to photograph anything due to time restraints. I used a rocket blower on the filter but rarely ever needed to clean it with fluid. I have both Hoya and B&W CP filters for other lenses which are even older than the Sigma CP filter, and NONE of them has experienced this problem.

Well, if the filter was 50 to 100 dollars I'd buy it right away (that is a good one...cheapies are easy to come by but probably not a bargain) but around 200 dollars or more it starts eating into my new lens purchase fund, which is earmarked for a new Nikon 200-500. Which, fortunately, uses the same 95mm filter size as the Tamron.

I ended up finding a B&W 95mm CPL on ebay for 50 bucks. It arrived today and it's in perfect shape.

I think that qualifies as a "score".

D200freak said:

I ended up finding a B&W 95mm CPL on ebay for 50 bucks. It arrived today and it's in perfect shape.

I think that qualifies as a "score".

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Heck yeah!

Speaking of scores, I just bought a D810 for 775 bucks! It does need repair, but it's a repair I can easily handle. It still works fine but needs front plastic and maybe a lens mount. All available on ebay.