Since the camera meter will compensate the difference automatically, you do not need to compensate manually. So the answer is "no". However, if you use a handheld meter, the answer will be "yes". regards, Alan Chan >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 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
