Polarizers

[dazedgonebye]

Steve,

I'll bring along the old Leica flip out style that I have which incorporates a hood and is very easy/fast to use for our next meet-up.

What filter size are you trying to use it on?

Best,

Ray

39mm

Thanks Ray

 

[thawkins]

Here is how I use a polarizer on a QL17. I rotate the filter and watch the change in the light meter. If the non-filtered exposure called for F11, I can rotate the filter until the meter bottoms out on a lower F-stop number, maybe F8 or F5.6. I am assuming that is full polarization. Prints seem to bear out this theory.

Tom

 

[dazedgonebye]

I voiced this idea earlier but someone said that it would not work.
I'll have to see if the R's meter is sensitive enough.

 

[jlw]

This might work if you're simply trying to use the polarizer for maximum sky darkening.

If you want to use it to reduce reflections, you'll need to look through it. Objects at different angles will need different polarizer settings to suppress their reflections.

 

[harmsr]

Steve,

Perfect that is what I have. I have the 39mm version for my 50 DR Cron.

I have the swing out type, and I also have the filter which twists type that I do as the other poster noted of orienting it to my polarized sun glasses.

You would be welcome to try them.

Ray

 

[wyk_penguin]

Polarizers are a PITA to use on rangefinders.
They work best on SLRs.

I detest looking through deeply colored filters for b/w on an SLR.
These work best on RF cameras.

An excellent excuse to own both types of camera! 😉

Chris

"Keep Chris in Christmas"

Well said. :angel:

 

[John Robertson]

How about this solution? Of course you would need a double shoe adaptor if you use a external VF

I also would heartily recommend the Kenko system, also I would be very suspicious about using "cheap" polarisers. There's no point having a superb lens then sticking one of these on it.
There was a test in the German Fotomagazin a few years ago, comparing the various makes and the results were very interesting. I remember the Cokin system ones did particularly badly!😱 It almost halved the reolution of the lens.

 

[wyk_penguin]

Just confirmed that if you mount a 77mm polarizer onto the lens with a vented hood, it will not block the RF window. But then the idea of calibrating your own sunglasses to the polarizer is cool.