Heliopan - Quality since 1949

More than 60 years of experience in the production of photographic filters has made HELIOPAN world famous an indispensable for the amateur as well for the professional. Filters and lenses are used for all purposes from documentary to creativ photography. HELIOPAN supplies a vast assortment of filters and accessories and also makes lens hoods, adapter rings,reversing rings,coupling rings and lens caps. Their produktion processes use glass and metal. Brass is used to make most of the rings for the filters and adapter rings. Aluminium is used for the rigid lens hoods like thetelephoto metal lens shades. For the rubber lens hoods a special rubber mixture is used. HELIOPAN manufactures all filters from glass from the German SCHOTT group. Their optical properties surpass that of gel filters. In addition they are extremly resitant against aging and fading. During production absolute plane parallelism is a must. To guarantee the filter’s effect the light transmittal must be uniform. Through the use of modern high tech equipment for metal manufacturing as well as for optical production the highest quality is guaranteed.