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Circular vs Linear Polarizer on m4/3 Camera

Started Jun 7, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP Charley123 Senior Member • Posts: 1,166
Re: Circular vs Linear Polarizer on m4/3 Camera

TheEye wrote:

Linear polarizers are a bit more effective than circular polarizers. Considering that polarizer-happy photogs often overdo the effect, it is not a bad thing to use a circular polarizer by default. It will work on any camera.

The highest quality polarizers are environmentally sealed, which prevents the sandwiched polarizer foil from getting damaged due to moisture. These pricey filters are called Käsemann.

Some cameras require circular polarizers for the AF system to work proplery. The manual should say, or you can call technical support.

For use with wide-angle lenses, get slim polarizers. The ones with a thick mount may cause vignetting.

Overdoing the polarizing effect? There's no such thing as far as I'm concerned. The more polarizing the merrier, IMO.

One of my cousins was a professional photographer who used to shoot for Sunset Magazine and others. He was of the opinion that the more polarizing the better and he loved his linear polarizer. I learned from him about polarizing. Also my college photography instructor was a full-time pro photographer (and part-time teacher) and he loved his linear polarizers.

Neither one of them would be caught dead using a circular polarizer. They preferred linear polarizers because they wanted the maximum polarizing effect. That was back in the film days, but I still love a linear polarizer today.

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