If in doubt buy a circular polarizer, as it will work on all types of cameras.
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Check your camera manual to see which kind your camera takes. Auto-focus and digital cameras need circular polarizers because the linear filters alter the metering and auto-focus in these cameras. Older manual focus cameras generally can use linear polarizers (which are less expensive). Without going into an explanation of how they differ, all you really need to know is which one will work best with your camera. Both give essentially the same result, but use different mechanisms. There are two types of polarizers, circular and linear. This is one filter you’ve got to have! (see Photos 2A and B for a comparison of a sidelight image shot with and without a polarizer –note how the polarizer not only reduces the brightness range but it saturates color). But if the light is to your right or left side, or directly overhead (mid-day sun, or overcast light), the filter will work its magic removing reflections, darkening blue skies, cutting through haze and saturating colors. If the light is directly behind you or if you are shooting directly into the light (a sunset), a polarizer won’t have any effect. This happens because polarizers only work when the light is orientated on a 90 degrees axis to the filter. Sometimes, you won’t see any change as you rotate the filter. Using a polarizer is easy, just screw it on your lens, look through your viewfinder and then rotate it until you see the effect you want. Try photographing such a scene with and without the polarizer and you will see an amazing difference in the final photos (see Photos 1A and 1B – note the increased saturation of color as well as the removal of glare from the rocks and water in the polarized scene from an overcast day). Add a polarizer onto your lens, spin it around and you will see the colors intensify. These reflections mute the colors significantly. For example, on overcast days every leaf, blade of grass, and wet stone reflects back some light from the overcast sky. It won’t turn a gray sky blue but it will help to saturate the colors in the scene by removing glare off of reflective surfaces. Even on overcast days a polarizer has strong effects. Many photographers know that a polarizer is useful for making blue skies richer and for removing reflections from glass, water, and metal but a polarizer does so much more. In my opinion, the polarizer is the most important filter for landscape photography. The range of brightness that film and digital sensors can record is far less than the human eye can see, to be able to accurately render the scene as our eye sees it, we need the help of filters. Secondly, filters allow film and digital cameras to see things more like our eyes see a scene. With filters, my images have flavor, color, and excitement. Without them my images barely rise above functional prose. Why? Well, two reasons: first, filters are to photography what adjectives are to writing. Without filters I have a hard time making memorable images.
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