Heliopan - Quality since 1949
More than 60 years of experience in the production of photographic filters has made HELIOPAN world famous as an indispensable tool for the amateur as well as the professional. Filters and lenses are used for all purposes from documentary to creative 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 production processes use glass and metal. Brass is used to make most of the rings for the filters and adapter rings. Aluminum is used for the rigid lens hoods like the telephoto 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 extremely resistant 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.