Marumi DHG Super Circular Polarising 72mm Filter

Genuine product, the coatings are good and the built quality is great.

I was worried when I received my Marumi DHG Super Circular Polarising filter. The packaging was completely different from the other Marumi filters I have. My other filters are in typical square filter boxes with paper inserts. The new filter was in a soft clear plastic box / packet with a paper insert with Chinese writing. Inside was an oval plastic box (branded Marumi), with the filter inside. The oval box is nicely finished and the filter is beautifully finished. Nice satin black anti reflection paint and it rotates super smoothly.I solved the packaging mystery by digging on the Marumi website. There is a button there to switch between English and Chinese traditional. When you switch to Chinese, the product photos show the exact same packaging that I received.Genuine product and high quality. Very happy.

Terrible.It arrived looking like a really old secondhand item that's seen better days. The plastic case was brown from age and cracked with fragments of plastic in the ziploc bag that it was packaged in - see the attached photos.Apparently it was shipped from Belgium.I've no faith that Amazon actually have genuine new stock of this filter so I've returned it and will source one from elsewhere.

The Marumi DHG Super Circular Polarising filter, has had a very good review on lenstip.com, comparable with the B+W, which are considered the best generally. Being a bit of a cheapskate and also interested to see how well the filter would work, I went ahead and bought a 77mm (and since a 58mm).Circular Polarisers are one of the few filters I will use (the over being ND filters) and they can do a very good job of, getting rid of reflection, haze and other issues, which are either very hard or can't really be cleaned up in photoshop. The big issue can be that, you do lose optical quality, with cheaper filters and you do lose light, which depending on the day can be good or bad.I have used the polariser for a couple of jobs now and it does a good job, generally. You can't do miracles but, it does what it is meant to do and does it well.Marumi has released a recently released a new top of the line circular polariser the Exus, which promises improvements over the DHG Super, though it is more expensive.

I bought this after seeing it reviewed well against B+W filters which I know from experience to be excellent.I have used this on a number of occasions now on a Nikon D7000 with 3 Nikon lenses attached to brass step-up rings: 18-70mm, 50mm f/1.8G and 105mm f/2.Flare is well controlled and the polarising effect is well controlled across the field of view, with no colour variation problems.The filter rotates easily and firmly enough to retain its position.The filter is relatively thin, and I only really had vignetting on my 18-70 when I stacked this with two other filters and shot at 18mm.My lens cap attaches easily to it.I didn't have any trouble with stiction, using my brass Heliopan step-up rings.The filter cleans easily with a Kauser (microfibre) cloth without problems.

This product was delivered with 48 hours of order and was packed well. This is the first polarising filter i have purchased and i am using it with a third party wide angle lens. having done lots of research i soon got the impression that it was not wise to go cheap on these filters. This filter was by far the cheapest but it was no where near the top end of the price range. I was tempted by other filters but heard about scratches and fakes , after reading numerous reviews i choses this one and am glad i did, I have taken a few test shots and wow , the difference it makes is amazing. The sky in my shots now looks blue and it changes the feel of the photo , i am looking forward to spending some quality time with this filter and will update the review afterwards but on first impressions i feel it is going to help me achieve some great looking shots.