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Re: [OM] What lens to carry (again)

Subject: Re: [OM] What lens to carry (again)
From: "Terry and Tracey" <foxcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 17:51:56 +1000
With minimal polarisation, light loss is 1 1/2 stops. With maximum
polarisation, light loss is two stops. As per manufacturers data and
experience with linear polarisers and OM-1n

Foxy

----- Original Message -----

> Shouldn't be any difference in light transmission regardless of how a
> polarizer is rotated.  What can vary is the light meter reading when a
> linear polarizer is used on a camera that requires a circular polarizer
> (like the Can-not-an-OM-on FTbn).
>
> I *have* one polarizer that is darker than my others, thus reducing light
> transmission more than the others - but it does so uniformly regardless of
> rotation.



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