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Re: [OM] Polarisers?

Subject: Re: [OM] Polarisers?
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 09:49:20 -0700
At 06:31 AM 06/11/2001 +0000, Chris Barker wrote:
>Hi Damon
>
>Welcome to the List ;-).
>
>A circular polariser will work with any OM to the best of my knowledge.  It's 
>linear polarisers which might not work with an OM2SP, 3 or 4, because of the 
>metering system.  However, it has always worked OK for me.
>
>Some say that the ND4 filter is pretty useless, but it is of great use if you 
>want to use a slow shutter speed and the light is such that you can't unless 
>you reduce the light coming into the camera - an ND4 is ideal for that... not 
>that I have ever had one handy when I wanted to blur the water in a stream for 
>instance.


Actually, an ND4 saved my butt late in August of this year, when I went on a 
multi-day foray through southern Alberta.  The sunlight was so painfully 
intense that, even with Velvia (ASA 50), I frequently found myself stopping 
down to F/16 or so just to keep the automatic exposure system on the OM-4 or 
OM-2Sp from going "Over" all the time.  Even then, I wished for an ND8 or even 
higher.  Now I'm going to invest in better NDs (multi-coated -- the ones I've 
got are older Tiffens, and I'm not even sure that they're single-coated).

Garth 


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