Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica flip polarizer
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Thu Feb 3 05:25:32 2005
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On the subject of polarizing filters, I no longer use mine except to 
eliminate unwanted reflections (read: very, very seldom). I find that 
today's colour films are saturated enough already. In fact, in this 
hyper-colour world of ours, I find most films are over-saturated for my 
tastes.

For many years I happily used Kodachrome 64. Now that I cannot get 
timely, reliable K processing, and that I gradually have started 
shooting mostly in low-light, I have switched to Provia 400F. It is not 
a neutral film but it is better than most. Skies are fine without a 
polarizing filter. This gives you the added benefit of not having 
considerable sky tone variance; especially with super-wides.

Everyone's tastes vary. One local photographer shot with Velvia and 
then duped with Velvia again in order to get the colours he wanted. 
Frankly I couldn't look at his work with wearing dark glasses; very 
dark glasses! I suppose he has switched to digital now and just rams 
all the sliders he can find to max.

John Collier


In reply to: Message from george at imagist.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 29, Issue 124)
Message from driggett at mac.com (Christopher Driggett) ([Leica] Does the Leica flip polarizer work on the R-D1?)
Message from firkin at balhpl01.ncable.net.au (firkin) ([Leica] Re: Does the Leica flip polarizer work on the R-D1?)
Message from michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema) ([Leica] Re: Does the Leica flip polarizer work on the R-D1?)
Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Re: Does the Leica flip polarizer work on the R-D1?)