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by deaton
Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:39 am
Forum: Alpha A-mount System
Topic: a350 and Polarizing Filters?
Replies: 5
Views: 2727

Re: a350 and Polarizing Filters?

The filter was supposed to be circular, but who knows. Is there any way to tell? Sure---and it's easy. Look through the filter into a mirror at the filter's mirror image. Flip the filter back and forth so you'd look through it once from the front side and then from the back side. With a linear pola...
by deaton
Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:00 pm
Forum: Alpha A-mount System
Topic: a350 and Polarizing Filters?
Replies: 5
Views: 2727

Re: a350 and Polarizing Filters?

bossel wrote:You say it was a cheap polarizer - was it a linear one or a circular one? The circular ones are more expensive but recommended for digital (though some report their linears are working fine).
The filter was supposed to be circular, but who knows. Is there any way to tell?
by deaton
Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:02 pm
Forum: Alpha A-mount System
Topic: a350 and Polarizing Filters?
Replies: 5
Views: 2727

a350 and Polarizing Filters?

Please help. Immediately after I got a Sony a350 I went on a trip to the Southwest US, and since I love polarizing filters I shot almost everything using a Sigma 17-70 with that filter (a cheap digital Bower). The shots looked great through the viewfinder. The D-range optimizer is set to "advan...