Polarisers: Do you miss them?

[fixbones]

Hi,

I was shooting SLRs primarily prior to Rfs and polarisers are one of my 'must have' in my camera bag.

Now, the one reason why i am a bit hesitant shooting colors with RFs is because i shoot some landscapes (i enjoy them too) and do miss having the opportunity to use polarisers. How about you guys? - i know there are 'stuffs' you can buy to use polarisers with RFs but they are just kinda troublesome.

Share your thoughts/solution.....

 

[Cron]

not really, when takin' landscape-shots I usually do this in the afternoon in warm light; then I do not need more intense colors esp with today's films like Velvia or Kodak Extracolor.
Maybe I will get better results when takin' photos of cars against reflections

 

[Steve Karr]

Hi, Well I Pol about 50-70% of my outside stuff with the Leica. For small lens stuff I use the swing away holder with a Modern filter in it & for the 48mm and up filter size I just look at the sun and set the filter. 90 deg rule work pretty well.

Give it a try ... just a little practice ...

Good Luck!

 

[Michiel Fokkema]

I still use them with the Leica swing out polariser.
Or use two and mark them in in a similar way. One one the lens and one in your hand.

cheers,
Michiel Fokkema

 

[jonmanjiro]

Nope, don't miss them. I'm more than happy with the amount of colour saturation I'm getting on my slides by just using quality multi-coated lenses and reading the light.

The only filters I use these days are warming filters and UV filters (for protection when needed).

 

[daniel~]

I wonder why hesitate to shoot colour without polariser... Do you find the colour shots from RF suffering from reflection or something?

I don't miss using polarisers at all, probably because my enthusiasm is not perticularly with landscape photography. On the other hand, I do miss SLR when I wanna shoot things close.

 

[btgc]

I just recently got idea of polarizer - probably only filter next to warming I'm using on SLR. On RF it's guesstimation which nicely fits concept of guessed exposure.

I'm don't shoot lots of landscape and probably it's easy to achieve same effect in PP stage, though as novice I like out-of-camera effect.

 

[Ronald M]

For killing reflections off non metalic surfaces, there is no substitute. For darkening skies and increasing color saturation, photoshop is easier and better,

If you print the film rather than scan, then a pola is the way to go. Stay away from the cheapies like Tiffin that turn everything green. B+W, Leica, Heliopan are all neutral grey. Linear is as good as circular unless you need it for propoer metering/autofocus.
You can always no matter what camera, set exposure and focus, then add the filter.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

I don't miss them, I use them. When I need to get rid of some polarized light, I don't use a rangefinder.

There's no substitute for polarizing filters. They're always in my bags for 35mm and MF.

By the way, they don't saturate colors.

Regards,

Juan.

 

[bhop73]

I use my polarizer all the time, but I mostly use it to cut the light down a couple stops when i've got high speed film in my camera during daylight hours.

 

[fixbones]

Anybody tried the Kenko max Pl kit which includes a polarizing finder and a polarizer before???

 

[Al Kaplan]

I rarely use them. If I need one to contol glare I usually shoot 120 in a TLR with the Minolta Autopole, which has two polarizing filters in one mount geared together.

 

[crawdiddy]

Yes, I also miss them. I used them a lot with SLRs. They are indeed a pain to use with RF.

 

[fixbones]

Yeah, the kenko PL kit might work but sounds like a pain to use.......

 

[ZeissFan]

I haven't used a polarizer in a while, although I use SLRs and all kinds of cameras in different formats often.

A few years back, a company sold a polarizer specifically for rangefinders. It came with a viewfinder that had a rotating polarizer filter with numbers on it. You rotated the viewfinder polarizer until you got the effect that you wanted. Then you noted the number on the filter and turned the lens to the same number. Very cool.

 

[fixbones]

Zeissfan: i think that is the Kenko max pl kit that i mentioned. I agree it looks pretty cools

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Doesn't everyone know?

Doesn't everyone know?

SLRs are made for color film with a polarizer;
rangefinders for B&W film with colored filters.

Chris