On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, John A. Lind wrote:
> Pulled the linear polarizer out of storage and put it on the OM-4. Aimed
> at a rough textured brick wall in the shade and rotated the linear filter.
> Chose this subject as it was very likely to be nothing but randomly
> polarized light. Did this in both manual and auto, but left it
> center-weighted averaging. The metering varied by somewhere between 1.5
> and 2 stops in both manual and AE mode as the polarizer was rotated.
> Replaced it with the circular, rotated it and the metering did not change.
That's pretty much what I expected, even before reading up on the theory
:)
I wouldn't expect it to change much between bodies, unless Olympus used
different half-silvering patterns on different bodies. I wouldn't
really expect brands of filter to make very much difference (but I could
be surprised about that).
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