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Polarizer filter
Hello,
I'm a newby to photography and trying to buy some accessories to my camera. I have a Minolta Dimage S414 digital camera. Right now, I'm about to buy some polarizer filters. However, I can't decide: linear or circular? Somewhere I read that linear polarizers are only for older cameras, with digital you should use circular. In a digital camera how-to book I found that circular polarizer is a bad choice for a digital camera. Which is true?? Do you have any suggestions? Any suggestions for brands? Right now I've found Tiffen and Hoya in the price range I'm planning to spend... Thanks for any ideas, Zsolt |
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wrote: Hello, I'm a newby to photography and trying to buy some accessories to my camera. I have a Minolta Dimage S414 digital camera. Right now, I'm about to buy some polarizer filters. However, I can't decide: linear or circular? Somewhere I read that linear polarizers are only for older cameras, with digital you should use circular. In a digital camera how-to book I found that circular polarizer is a bad choice for a digital camera. Which is true?? Do you have any suggestions? Any suggestions for brands? Right now I've found Tiffen and Hoya in the price range I'm planning to spend... Thanks for any ideas, Zsolt If your camera utilizes a beam splitter in the optical system for either metering, focusing or the finder display you need a circular. If it doesn't you can use a linear. in other words a linear will not work properly with all types of cameras. A linear will work with any camera. However, as you do not seem to know, you should ask your camera manufacturer which type to use. -- To reply no_ HPMarketing Corp. |
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wrote: I'm about to buy some polarizer filters Why some? There are regular polarizers, warmtone polarizers, wide angle polarizers, etc. Why do you need more then one with a fixed lens camera? -- To reply no_ HPMarketing Corp. |
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Zsolt writes:
Right now, I'm about to buy some polarizer filters. However, I can't What problem do you expect to solve with these polarizer filters? -- Philip Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed Legal Assistance on the Web | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.PhilipStripling.com/ | my domain is read daily. |
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Polarizer filter
"Zsolt"
Hello, I'm a newby to photography and trying to buy some accessories to my camera. I have a Minolta Dimage S414 digital camera. Right now, I'm about to buy some polarizer filters. However, I can't decide: linear or circular? Somewhere I read that linear polarizers are only for older cameras, with digital you should use circular. In a digital camera how-to book I found that circular polarizer is a bad choice for a digital camera. Which is true?? Do you have any suggestions? Any suggestions for brands? Right now I've found Tiffen and Hoya in the price range I'm planning to spend... Thanks for any ideas, Zsolt Get a circular you will be on tha safe side, they work on all cameras, don't worry, that book has made a mistake. Which brand, either will do the job fine, there are special effects polarizers too. ;o)-max- |
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"Phil Stripling" wrote in message ... Zsolt writes: Right now, I'm about to buy some polarizer filters. However, I can't What problem do you expect to solve with these polarizer filters? -- Philip Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed Legal Assistance on the Web | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.PhilipStripling.com/ | my domain is read daily. Phil are you saying that software can do it now and no need for a polarizer? I have read this is the case from some but have also been wondering if this is really true. Sampson |
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Polarizer filter - Heliopan-polarizer-w_990.jpg (1/1)
"Bob Salomon" wrote in message ... In article mer7c.54680$J05.428657@attbi_s01, "Sampson" wrote: "Phil Stripling" wrote in message ... Zsolt writes: Right now, I'm about to buy some polarizer filters. However, I can't What problem do you expect to solve with these polarizer filters? -- Philip Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed Legal Assistance on the Web | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.PhilipStripling.com/ | my domain is read daily. Phil are you saying that software can do it now and no need for a polarizer? I have read this is the case from some but have also been wondering if this is really true. Sampson It is nonsense. A polariser, among other uses, will remove glare. That will be very time consuming and difficult to do in software. And why waste the time. That is what I was pretty sure of but have not spent a lot of time with PS. I was actually thinking of some shots I took with and without at the beach where parts of the distant Caribbean Ocean were a deeper darker blue while fish near the shore could be seen swimming just beneath the shallow water but got just a reflection with no filter. Sampson |
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Polarizer filter - Heliopan-polarizer-w_990.jpg (1/1)
In article str7c.53443$JL2.716653@attbi_s03,
"Sampson" wrote: fish near the shore could be seen swimming just beneath the shallow water but got just a reflection with no filter. Then don't let anyone try to tell you that shot could be rescued by software. Get it when you take it. It makes photography, film, digital, video or movie, much, much, simpler. -- To reply no_ HPMarketing Corp. |
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Polarizer filter - Heliopan-polarizer-w_990.jpg (1/1)
"Bob Salomon" wrote in message ... In article str7c.53443$JL2.716653@attbi_s03, "Sampson" wrote: fish near the shore could be seen swimming just beneath the shallow water but got just a reflection with no filter. Then don't let anyone try to tell you that shot could be rescued by software. Get it when you take it. It makes photography, film, digital, video or movie, much, much, simpler. I agree 100%. This is probably why I have not imagined any real use for Photo editing SW other then the basic slight enhancements to well composed and executed photography. I read posts from the PS heavy hitters that make we wonder if there really was photography before the computer age. Ya, I know, PS is a great piece of SW but I am not speaking in special effects or graphic arts. Sampson |
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Phil Stripling wrote: Zsolt writes: Right now, I'm about to buy some polarizer filters. However, I can't What problem do you expect to solve with these polarizer filters? Hi... I'm not the original poster, but I've been watching hoping that I'll find the answers I too would like before spring... What I want one for is to take the white glare that every so often appears on the surface of the lake... Ken |
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