Do I need a circular or linear polarizer?

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Do I need a circular or linear polarizer?

-- Yapfaq (yapfaq@hotmail.com), April 06, 1999

Answers

If you have a TTL (Through-The-Lens) autofocus camera, you'll want a circular polarizer, or the filter will do weird things to your focusing... Otherwise a linear polarizer will do just fine (and it's cheaper, too).

-- Alexander Janke (alex@euroavia.org), December 06, 1999.

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