Are you using a Heliopan polarizer with numbers around the perimeter? If yes, you look through the polarizer and turn it for the desired effect. Note the number that is on top. Screw the polarizer into your lens and keep turning it (there is a swivel joint on all screw-in polarizers) until that number is on top, ie; you match the orientation of the filter with how it was when you looked through it and got the desired effect. However... it is only valid for photographing in the relatively exact direction that you were looking when you when you viewed the desired effect and noted the number on top.
I personally bought two Heliopan filters, I put one on my M camera, and use the other for viewing. That eliminates a whole lot of screwing - unscrewing - screwing - ad nauseam.
I don't know what a POOTR is so maybe you aren't using Heliopan. If not, you should as they work elegantly.
Jim At 07:40 AM 1/18/2007 -0800, joseph hayes wrote:
Hello all,Quite awhile ago I picked up a circular polarizing filter for my M lens (Model - POOTR). As I understand it, you dial in the effect with the filter off the camera noting the number and then screw it on to the lens and set it to that number. The "zero" should be in the noon position as you set it off camera, but when I go to mount it on the lens, it doesn't always come out that way. The result, non-polarized images, and I have kinda given up using it. I am going to FLA for a couple of weeks and am hoping to give this another try.Is there any trick or am I missing something when using this filter? Thanks for any suggestions, Joe Hayes Los Angeles, CA
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