Polarized Filter From 3D Glasses

by ellis3d

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Intro: Polarized Filter From 3D Glasses

If you go and see a 3D movie in a theater chances are you will be wearing polarized glasses to separate the left and right images. You can use the lenses from these to make your own polarized filter for your camera. Here's a quick how-to video

11 Comments

Darrel02 4 years ago

I'm an angler and I was wondering if 3d glasses could be used to see through water glare like the more pricey glassss???

drathquark 12 years ago

Huh I had a similar idea a few days ago, needs a bit of refining though since the 'lens' ended up with a curve once I removed it from the frame, strangely enough the pair I dismantled were realD 3D glasses as well.

Culturespy 13 years ago

I'd love to see a step by step Instructable for this.

Beduk 14 years ago

to watch 3d moviz!!!!

ellis3d 14 years ago

The main use for polarized filters is to reduce glare and reflections: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizing_filter_%28Photography%29

sleepydog 14 years ago

Nice job! There are two different kinds of polarized glasses being used for 3D movies: Linear Polarized (LP) and Circular Polarized (CP). It looks like you used LP filters because they cause much more darkening when crossed polarized than CP filters. The professional tuned Neutral Density (ND) filters lenses use one of each.

Light_Lab 14 years ago

Easy way to check - put them on and look in a mirror - if the lenses look black (or at least very dark) they are circularly polarized.

Cheers, Light_Lab

bakn90 14 years ago

that's great!
I hope, i can do it with my 3d glasses =)