Hi all,
After a friend showed me a couple of "red-eyed" family snapshots, and I showed him some "polarized" landscape shots, it didn't take long for me to think about the possibility of using a polarizer to prevent red eyes...
I prefer to use reflected light from the flash unit (ceiling, lumiquest, omnibounce), but sometimes that just doesn't work because you loose maximum range. Adding a polarizer won't extend the range either, but at least you could use the flash's ability to change focal length! Does anyone have any experience with the combination polarizer-flash? You cannot really preview the effects, so setting the polarizer is a bit of a gamble, but my guess is it should be possible!
I didn't try it. But I can't imagine a polarizer could help with red eye. Red eye has nothing to do with polarized light. It's just plain "normal" light reflected off a red surface. And as a polarizer doesn't turn red subjects into blue, brown or gray, I don't think it will reduce red eye. Should be easy enough to try, though.
Thomas Bantel
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