An optical filter is configured to have a regular transmittance of 60% of higher for light having a wavelength of 950 nm. The optical filter is also configured such that in a state in which a light resistance test of irradiating the optical filter for 300 hours with light from a xenon arc lamp having a wavelength not shorter than 300 nm and not longer than 400 nm and a wattage of 120 W/m2 is performed, the optical filter exhibits a change in C* having an absolute value of 6 or smaller between before and after the light resistance test, the C* being measured by the SCE method by use of a spectrophotometer.