Hello,
the answer is NO. The camera will compensate by itself because there
is less light going inside the camera...
Alex
Scott Dillard wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a ZX-5N and was using a circular polarizer on a wide angle lens (28A)
> this weekend at a antique car show in Springfield, Missouri. I took a lot
> of pictures and hope they turn out well. I am just starting photography and
> am really loving how much I am getting into it now. I am always on a look
> out for pictures in my area now, Chicago area. Anyway, I digress, I have a
> question. In a book I own, I believe a Kodak book on photograhy, it says
> to increase up to a couple stops when using a circular polarizer. My
> question is that I did a little test with and without the circular polarizer
> on the lens. The meter on the camera did take into consideration when using
> the circular polarizer on the lens and the meter provided about two more
> stops vs. when the polarizer was off. I used the same scene to judge this.
> Later, I also did this with various sites at the show and did the same
> thing. Now I hope that I did not over exposure when I took a lot of
> pictures manually over exposing from +.5 to 2 stops.
> My question, long message to read to get to the question is this, do I have
> to manually increase exposure when the circular polarizer is on the ZX-5N
> camera or does the camera do this for you?
>
> Thanks for the advise in advance,
> Scott
>
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