Polarizers

brooklynkid

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• Dec 20, 2007

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I own a Canon F-1n which needs a circular polarizer because a plane polarizer does not work with the automatic exposure mode. If a circular polarizer is used on a camera that was built to take a plane polarizer will it result in incorrect exposure?

 

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• Dec 20, 2007

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No.

 

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brooklynkid said:

I own a Canon F-1n which needs a circular polarizer because a plane polarizer does not work with the automatic exposure mode. If a circular polarizer is used on a camera that was built to take a plane polarizer will it result in incorrect exposure?

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Ole is correct. If your camera uses TTL metering, you should have no problem either way. If exposure values differ from filter to filter, a TTL meter will compensate.

 

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Thanks guys. I appreciate the help.