On Tue, 4 May 2004 15:29:11 -0500 Bob Smith wrote:

>On May 4, 2004, at 6:58 AM, David Hoffman wrote:
>
>> I think, as you suspected, you need a circular polariser.
>
>I use a 14n for critical copy  work with cross polarized light.  A 
>standard polarizer works just fine.  In my situation...filters on the 
>lights as well... circular polarizers cause all sorts of weird color 
>shifts as you rotate the filter.  The magenta/green cast Chris is 
>seeing is a problem with the lens optimization setting, not the 
>polarizing filter.

Maybe the reason I was told I had to use a circular pola was for the auto
focus & not for colour reasons then? But your workflow involves the
camera (linear) pola only seeing already (linear) polarised light - would
that not be different from a camera linear pola seeing unpolarised light?

David Hoffman
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