Tiffen 52mm Circular Polarizer

Polarizers provide color and contrast enhancement. Reflected light often appears as whitish glare that washes out color in an image. A polarizer corrects this issue, producing deep, dramatically blue skies. It also removes glare from non-metallic surfaces, such as windows and water. Color saturation, especially outdoors, can be improved significantly.

Polarizer/Circular Polarizer:

• Essential general-use outdoor color filter.
• Produces deeper skies and minimizes reflections in black and white and color photography.
• Combine a polarizer with a Red 25 for incredibly dramatic black and white landscapes.
• Can be rotated to achieve the desired effect.
• Use the Tiffen polarizer with the enhancing filter for more dramatic effects.
• Available for wide-angle lenses.

A circular polarizer has the same effect as a polarizer and is used on cameras with beam-splitting metering systems commonly found on autofocus SLRs (for most 35mm autofocus cameras, see your camera manual).

Area of sky most effectively polarized with a circular polarizer:
Point your index finger at the sun. With your thumb extended at a right angle (90°), rotate it around the axis of the index finger. It will point out the band of deepest blue from horizon to horizon.

Warm Polarizer:
Combines the benefits of the linear polarizer with the warming effect of the 812® color warming filter, making it ideal for portraits and scenic photography.