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Polarizing Filters

Started Nov 20, 2020 | Discussions thread
DougOB
DougOB Veteran Member • Posts: 3,176
Re: Polarizing Filters

Hythloday wrote:

DougOB wrote:

Which B+W CPL is it? CPL's are the only filters I have and I had settled on B+W Kaesemann filters, so just curious.

Personally I prefer the result using a CPL to darken the sky vs postprocessing, but maybe I am just crap at postprocessing

It was a Kaesemann type and very expensive. Later there was some moisture between te two elements, so I threw it away.

OK, good to know.  In the meantime I will use what I have.  If I need to replace then I will look at the Hoya Fusion filters.

Side note... I have a friend who is... uhm... thrifty and only buys the cheapest filter that he can find.  I keep saying politely "why bother" but...

The Hoya CPL's are slim filters and I leave it on my lens.

The CPL does not only darken the sky but it also affects other colours slightly, e.g. the greens

Yup.  Of course my quick way to get dark skies via pp is to drop the blue which also affects everything else...

Doug

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