Circular Polarizer Filter

susiewong

Hullo Everyone

I am new to the forum.



I am wishing to purchase a circular Singh-Ray plain glass polariser filter. I hear it is an excellent filter. I am wishing to use a cokin P holder as I not wanting to buy two polariser filters one for my Nikon 70-300 and one for my Tokina 12-24mm lens.


Here is the thing So far I have been unable to access the filter in Australia. So if there are any Australians out there who can assist on information.

From the Singh-Ray website there only seems to be a warming polarising filter which I do not want. As the plain glass (resin) would be better.

The cost is pretty steep for a filter and I am prepared to consider an equally good polariser filter. My constaint is that the filter needs to be able to fit into the Cokin P holder.

Expert advise would be appreciated.


Sue

BenA2

Careful with polarizer on 12-24
In case you're not aware of this already... you need to be careful with a polarizer on a wide angle lens like the 12-24. At minimum focal length, you're going to get something like a 120° field of view. So, the polarizer will be inneffective over much of the image. In skies, that will result in a significant graduation from light to dark blue.

If you're using the polarizer on the wide just to cut glare on glass and water, I think this is less of an issue.

henryp

susiewong wrote:

From the Singh-Ray website there only seems to be a warming polarising filter which I do not want. As the plain glass (resin) would be better.

Our datbase says the plain Singh-Ray pol filter in Cokin-P size has been discontinued. You may be able to find one in some retailer's stock, but Singh-Ray was never the most widely distributed brand.

They still have their Singh-Ray Circular Polarizer/A-13 Warming Filter which you say you don't want. Take a look at their Singh-Ray Circular Polarizer/B-9 UV Correction Filter. From the description:
Combines Singh Ray's unique B-9 UV-Correcting filter with their color-neutral circular polarizer to help preserve natural flesh tones while keeping white areas white. Developed to correct ultraviolet effects and color shifts due to electronic flash, this combination is equally useful indoors or outdoors, especially for flash-fill close-ups.