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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