Indestructable Hoya HD Filter

This was the best demo anyone gave me at PMA this year. Awesome. More 2009 PMA tradeshow coverage: http://reviews.photographyreview.com/...

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[blobrana]

Indestructible or Indestructible?

i guess it isn't false advertising from where i come from...

[PhotographyREVIEW]

Well, that would be my spelling error, not theirs. So either, way, no false advertising.

[Saggmos95]

is the HD 58mm any diffrent from Hoya digital filter cir-pl 58mm ???

[PhotographyREVIEW]

The "HD" indicates the stronger construction. If it doesn't say, "HD," it's a different filter and you should avoid bashing it on the corner of display cases :-)

[sonicbladex1]

yawn. try that with a 1.5 kg dslr + lens and we'll talk. and 10m/s pull of gravity...

[PhotographyREVIEW]

So you've found something better, I guess?

[PhotographyREVIEW]

Try what he did on the same corner with whatever filter you're using now.

[396023900]

Бля Заебись а у меня песчинка попалась я начал протирать и все поцарапал,фильтр китайского производства))))

[ParedoliaFilms]

considering how much damage and scratching my Hoya HD filter has picked up in only 3 months of infrequent shooting, i wouldnt personally advise any table corner bashing, regardless of its HD pedigree. However, I must add that the image quality & light transmission offered by this filter are, in a word, fantastic.

[Nagarjun Roy]

They have to make the glass a perfect (72 or 77 or whatever size you require) circle cause once the glass is moulded and hardened they cannot cut it any more. Not even with diamonds. That is why this price tags. And some of my friends here with absolute lens lust are so rich that they have little koo-i-noors in their house here and there so they need to protect their costly lenses with something really hard. That is why they want to replace all existing filters with this Viagra powered monster.

[blobrana]

Oh, they mean it is 'indestructible' until it breaks? ;)

But, advertising law is outside my field of expertise - and the filter seems to be quite robust.

[zrsgamboa]

After seeing this video... I actually replaced all the filters on all my lenses to Hoya HD... worth the peace of mind that:

1. the front my lenses are protected better, and

2. the Hoya HD's actually don't degrade image quality of expensive lenses.

Kudos to Tokina engineers.

[Dmachanic]

Indestructible is a misnomer.

[csiegert83]

@ realmike15

I dont think the rubber on the table has that much of affect. Its not like the rubber is soft they are usualy hard. Headbutt a concrete wall then headbutt another concrete wall covered in that thin layer of rubber they are both gonna hurt like hell

[Nicki Hansen]

I agree, I'd like to see him smash a 30kg mallet on that filter.