I'll often shoot with a polarizing filter, which can help get deep skies, while reducing glare and haze. Marumi makes some great performing cost effective polarizers that I highly recommend.
Coupled with the X-E1, they perform nicely:
moon through by cbmn, on Flickr
trestle and river by cbmn, on Flickr
There's a few issues, though.
1) On the X-E1, while rotating the filter to look for varying polarizing effect the EVF tends to compensate for the light-level change. The only thing I've found helps is to look for contrast of clouds deepening or such to tell when polarization is at a maximum, and that's not always easy to judge.
Does anyone have exposure setup or such they use to reduce the automatic level compensation in the EVF?
2) The X-E1 colors do shift to the blue-side when using a polarizer. I currently compensate in post for that.
Does anyone follow a set of steps to have the camera compensate the white balance? If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd sure appreciate it.
Thanks much.
- Carl
Coupled with the X-E1, they perform nicely:
moon through by cbmn, on Flickr
trestle and river by cbmn, on Flickr
There's a few issues, though.
1) On the X-E1, while rotating the filter to look for varying polarizing effect the EVF tends to compensate for the light-level change. The only thing I've found helps is to look for contrast of clouds deepening or such to tell when polarization is at a maximum, and that's not always easy to judge.
Does anyone have exposure setup or such they use to reduce the automatic level compensation in the EVF?
2) The X-E1 colors do shift to the blue-side when using a polarizer. I currently compensate in post for that.
Does anyone follow a set of steps to have the camera compensate the white balance? If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd sure appreciate it.
Thanks much.
- Carl