From the course: Video Gear: Cameras & Lenses

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Polarizer

Polarizer

- Now Rich, earlier we talked about sort of the haze filter or the protection filter, and you know, you do kind of cut down on some of that atmospheric haze and that kind of junk, but there are times like maybe when you're shooting water or like a lake or something like that or something that's really shiny, you're going to kind of get reflections and sort of you know glare off the, you know that water or other, you know similar objects that might not be wanted. - Well and on the construction site, we needed to shoot through the glass of the cabs to see the people driving, and the circular polarizer polarizer really lets that happen. It cuts down on reflections. Essentially as you turn this, it adjusts the way that the light's going to pass through, and it's a lot like polarized sunglasses. So if you've ever been driving, you put on those polarized sunglasses, the glare. - The HD. - Yeah, you can see so much clearer. You're not getting problems with the reflection of your windshield…

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