Understood it perfectly...I think :-)
Thank you for this, it is something that has been troublesome, especially
around here where we live in a valley. That haze gets stuck and doesn't move
out very often.
Candace
----- Original Message -----
From: "khen lim" <castanet.xiosnetworks@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:02 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Grand Junction
>
> Candace
>
> If a UV or 1B filter doesn't seem to remove the haze, I'd suggest you try
> C-POL, which is also known as CIRC-POL or Circular Polariser. After
> attaching it to your lens, hold the rim and move it around while looking
> through the viewfinder to see the varying effect.
> Polarisers can reduce if not eliminate haze. Technically of course, that's
> not true. What POL filters do is to limit the type of reflected light
> coming
> through the lens. Glare caused by haze creates a wall of brightened light
> that behaves as haze. This wall of light is because light is reflecting
> off
> the scene in all sorts of angles thus creating that wall I speak of. This
> is
> not a technical explanation but I'm trying to see how I can simplify the
> haze phenomenon for you. It's kinda like when you have fog and you try to
> use your car's standard headlights to throw a beam at it - you just see a
> wall of white light in front of you, don't you...
> Because light is reflecting all over the place, the POL filter will do its
> best to remove as much reflected light and only allow a certain stream to
> come through. Doing this will reduce the effect of that wall of light I
> was
> talking about. What you then get are stronger, more saturated colours.
> In many ways these are the real colours because glare is removed but since
> our eyes are conditioned to see images the way we normally do, we
> sometimes
> don't realise the glare that's around. Removing the glare often makes our
> eyes think that the colours are unnatural when in fact, they are the ones
> that are real....
> Hope that helps. It's kind of a convoluted way to explain it though.....
> :(
>
> K.
>
> On 31/08/06, Candace Lemarr <CandaceRocks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Run, Bill, Run!!!
>> Just kidding. :-))
>> My husband and I love to laugh at the special people here that drive
>> their
>> hummers everywhere. Treehuggers that drive that gas guzzling machine half
>> a
>> mile to pick up their kids from school...oxymorons, we call 'em. :-D
>>
>> I'm all digital, so your film recommendations won't help me much, LOL.
>> However...that haze can be something else...but the filters you referred
>> to...those would help me? And can be used on the lenses I have for the
>> E-300
>> and E-330?
>> Candace
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:16 AM
>> Subject: [OM] Re: Grand Junction
>>
>>
>> >
>> >>> I live here, and I still find it difficult to capture the Monument.
>> Most
>> >>> days, it's just too hazy, or the sun completely washes out the
>> >>> colors.
>> > and,
>> >> A scene that looks bright and colorful to the eye, will often look
>> >> washed out to the "eye" of the camera.
>> >
>> > I've shot a lot in Colorado, beginning in the early seventies, but for
>> > some
>> > reason, I've never been to Grand Junction that I can remember. Anyway,
>> > I
>> > find that Velvia or something like it is highly necessary. The amount
>> > of
>> > haze there has increased notably over the years I've been shooting
>> there.
>> > I
>> > read somewhere that, for example, the Four Corners power plant puts out
>> a
>> > stream of pollution that covers many states, and can be seen from
>> > space.
>> > I've not noticed any improvement since Denver started using special
>> > gasoline.
>> >
>> > I also generally use a 1A or 81A filter there.
>> >
>> > You aren't driving a Hummer, are you....
>> >
>> > Bill Pearce, running for cover
>> >
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