You can use a pola on a Leica - without investing (heavily) in the
Leica flip-over type. One way is to judge the level off effect from
the metering - more effect drops the light level through the lens and
requires opening up. You get used to guessing the degree but you get
no preview - important for shots with a lot of sky.
The other is to glue a cheap small pola to a shoe pinched from a dead
flash. You then calibrate it to the nice B+W Kaesmann you put on the
lens and mark corresponding numbers or marks on the two polas. You
use it as a supplementary viewer in the flash shoe, set the ideal
pola effect and then dial in the same amount on the lens mounted
filter. Takes time to set up but once done, it works quite well.
I think Konica were threatening to make a set to use with their M-RF
body but it hasn't appeared yet.
I'm considering selling my old but lovely Leica CL help fund an M7,
now that I've got a Voigt R2 that does the same job. How do you like
the 7 - worth the cost?
Andrew
At 07:18 AM 7/23/2003 -0300, John Hudson wrote:
The top and the top left part of the sky in img31 is slightly darker than
the rest of the sky. Is this the result of having used a polarizing filter?
If so what was your technique for measuring the degree of darkening
required?
No polarizer. This is on the M7 (RF) so I think it would be
difficult to use a polarizer even if I want to. I guess either the
sky just looked like that, or the lens is doing something funny. The
battery cover fell off from the M7 during the trip, so almost all
the shots with it were done with the Sunny-16 rule, until I very
belatedly remember that I can use my OM-4 as a meter too :-)
// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com>
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