I'm not sure the exposure meter is affected - I didn't think it was necessary to use circular polarizers with early SLRs (which had metering). I believe the requirement came in with auto-focus.
I'd already got part of the way to the suggested test - if I had a second polarizer I had deduced how to use the pair of them, back-to-back, to determine which was the correct orientation. But I don't have a second polarizer, so I couldn't do the test. Using the reflected image of the first polarizer was a brilliant idea, and enabled me to discover that, of course, I had put the glass back in the wrong way round. Murphy never sleeps. On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:45:31AM +0200, Jostein wrote: > > Here's another suggestion: > > Since the light meter in the camera will be affected by the direction, why not > hold it up in front of the camera, rotate the filter and note the max. and > min. > EV. Then reverse the filter and repeat. The filter direction that gives the > least difference between max. and min. EV should be the right way, shouldn't > it? > > Jostein > > > Quoting Ann Sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Except that it isn't true... if you rotate the polarizer > > with it facing in eitehr > > direction you can give yourself a black eye > > at least with my tiffin polartizer > > > > ann > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
