Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Polarizing Filter w/M6
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:49:50 -0600

At 08:57 AM 1/13/98 -0500, you wrote:

>Well, I dunno about Leica Rs, but I talked with - gasp! - Nikon about my
>old F3, which also uses a part-silvered mirror spot in the metering
>system. They assured me that linear polas were fine; and indeed, I seem
>to have no trouble using one. So, are there other factors present that
>mandate circulars for some cameras but not for others?

You had me stumped for a minute, but then I remembered from the days when I
had an F3. 

The reason it doesn't need linear polarizers on the F3 is that it doesn't
use a beam splitter. It's actually a bunch of tiny little holes drilled in
the silvering of the mirror that lets the light through. A beam splitter,
as a matter of fact, is a polarizer of sorts. I think the F3 is the only
camera that had that solution.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.