jesse_e._reyes

I used this several years ago (three or four) and promptly sold it after the quick release failed during a vertical shot and trashed my camera. I could never get the tension for the grip set just right and it constantly irritated my hand. It sets too high off the tripod and is too far off axis during vertical shots.

I sold it.

A few years ago I was using print film in Colorado springs without a polarizer (Kodak Super Gold 100). Even without a polarizer, the sky was almost blue/black in some of the underexposed shots. The polarizer enhanced this effect to a surreal point.

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The darkening definitely occurs but it depends on the quality of the polarizer -- a Tiffen polarizer would have nearly the effect that a high dollar heliopan or B&W polarizer would -- but you will get a darkening effect primarily when the sun is above 30 degrees from the horizon. Less pronounced effect at high noon or at sunset/sunrise. Since polarization occures at 90 degree angles from the sun angle, polarization is most pronounced at certain times of the season and or day. I was taking the above mentioned pictures in April at around 10:00 am.

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I would surmise that the effect will be dramatized on some films and not on others depending on the sensitivity of the film to blue. If I had known that the effect was going to be as pronounced as it was I would like to have shot the same scenes with different films and or polariziaing angles. But even the unpolarized shots were a bit shy of believable.

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Jess