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Along with UV and ND filters, Tiffen Polarizer filters are among the essential Digital camera filters every photographer should have. Polarizing filters provide colour and contrast enhancement. Reflected light often shows up as whitish glare that washes out colour in an image.
A Polarizer filter corrects this problem producing deep, dramatically blue skies. It also removes glare and reflections from non-metallic surfaces, such as windows and water. Colour saturation in general, especially outdoors, can be improved significantly by using polarizer filters. There are 4 main different types of polarizer.
A circular polarizing filter absorbs rays of sunlight, by rotating the ring you control the effect. A Circular Polarizer is used on cameras with beam splitting metering systems commonly found on auto focus SLR’s (for most 35mm auto-focus cameras see your camera manual). The Standard Circular Polarizer filter blocks 1.5 stops of light and is one of those must have filters. Circular polarizers contain a linear polarizer and a quarter wave plate. The quarter wave plate spins the light after it passes through the linear layer and before it enters the camera lens. This prevents the light from getting cross polarized on reflective surfaces.
Linear Polarizing filters provide colour and contrast enhancement. Reflected light often shows up as whitish glare that washes out colour in an image. The electric field of light vibrates in a single plane. A Polarizer filter corrects this problem producing deep, dramatically blue skies. It also removes glare and reflections from water, glass, paint, leaves, sky, buildings. Colour saturation in general, especially outdoors, can be improved significantly. A standard polarizer filter blocks 1.5 stops of light.
The Tiffen Warm Polarizer filter, combines the properties of the polarizing filter with the exclusive effects of the 812® Warming Filter. This valuable filter adds natural warmth to all skin-tones, exterior shade and highlight areas. This is useful in outdoor open shade situations where there is excessive blue in the image and total control over lighting may not be possible.
The low light polarizer has less of a polarizing effect than a standard polarizer filter, allowing for it to be used in indoor and darker situations when available light is at a premium. Low light polarizer filters require 1 stop of exposure compensation, instead of the standard 1.5 stop compensation.
