At 05:51 PM 6/20/1998 -0500, Winsor wrote:
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>2. Polarizers used without restraint are not suitable for general landscape
>photography. They may be alright for producing a picture when you are
>trying to achieve an artistic, but thoroughly unnnatural effect.
>
>Any thoughts on the subject?
>
>Winsor Crosby
Hi Winsor:
After evaluating my slides from my trip to the Big Bend in March, I vowed
never to shoot with a polarizer without shooting a "control" shot without
it. It does improve haze problems, but the current crop of films doesn't
need that polarizer sky I used to try to get with Kodachrome.
Most of the time, only part of the sky gets the polarized "improvement"
anyway. Maybe somebody else can discern this just by looking, but I usually
don't find out until it's an unpleasant surprise on the light bench. I
think the polarizer is the most overrated and overused article in the
camera bag.
Joel
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