I recently upgraded from a point and shoot Canon Powershot SX130IS to a Canon EOS 6D. I am enjoying my new camera immensely, but I have a problem with a circular polarizer filter. I bought the 24-105mm kit lens that Canon pushes with this camera and the vivitar circular polarizer included in the kit gives me spotty results. I used to shoot 35 mm film and medium format film back in the 60's, 70's, and 80's and I do not remember ever having a problem like this with polarizers. This picture was taken at the 24mm setting, it is somewhat less ugly at 105mm, but it is still there.

Hi UVDan! I only use a point and shoot, but I can definitely tell that polarizer filter shouldn't be creating that type of result. If I didn't know you used a polarizer filter for that, I would have thought you opened the photo in Photoshop and put a radial gradient overlay over it and left it at 60% opacity. I wish I could help you with your polarizer filter problem. I'm better at working with photos after you take them. I hope someone with a more advanced camera and tons of experience with filters will drop by and help you with your problem. I hope it starts working better for you, and if it doesn't, then there are more polarizer filters in the sea that will give you better results.

Thanks very much Deenamic! I appreciate your response.

You're welcome UVDan!

Does your circular polarizer has something to change the radius (maybe a handle)? If so i would suggest to try to change the radius. You can try to hold the polarizer directly into the sky and than change the radius. You should see the effect immediately. I hope i could help.

Polarizers will have little or no effect when used to shoot a setting sun, because the angle is wrong. The effect of a polarizers manifests itself at 90 degree angles to the sun.

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It would be nice to get a response from UVDan if the information was helpful.