>>I don't have the original hood but found a suitable one in a dealers junk
>>box which 'only just' doesn't vignette. I'd like to use a polariser
>>occasionally and, taking a lead from the 18mm lens hood (i.e. a step up
>>ring) I figured that a 49-62 step up ring and standard polariser should be
>>OK. Anyone out there solved this problem?
>
>No. I tried a regular 49mm polarizer + lens hood on my 24/2.8 and got
>vignetting. I also got blotchy sky colors, since the sky doesn't "polarize"
>uniformly with a really wide angle lens. I would think that using a higher
>contrast color slide film like Velvia, E100VS or the like would give you
>plenty punchy colors with wide angle lenses.
The 'bowl' effect with wide polarising can be good but it's tricky. I'd use
one to punch up the colours in other shots and avoid polarised skies at
this width.
Andrew
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