Renting a car in the USA

Renting a car in the States presents a fine example of what happens when there’s a lack of government oversight of a particular industry – the rental companies make up their own rules and the consumer generally gets screwed unless they know what to look out for. The “final price” listed at the bottom of the website on the rental page is rarely just that, as extra … Continue reading Renting a car in the USA

Using a Circular Polarising Filter with your DSLR

A circular polarising filter allows you to filter out light reflecting off certain surfaces.

I use a Hoya circular polariser with a 52mm thread for my smaller zooms and my 50mm prime lens. It looks like this:

It kind of looks like the lens you might see on a pair of sunglasses, and it actually works in a similar way (if those sunnies are polarised, that is).

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