Re: Sun shade, too "mall ninja?"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 762frmafr</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shot In The Dark</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 762frmafr</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: HuntinAZ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">From USO's website
Honeycomb:
Simple polarizer, low light detail enhancer, and anti-reflective device.
http://www.usoptics.com/acc.php?typeID=Honeycomb </div></div>
see what i mean? </div></div>
Physics don't lie...
If you would actually read and understand the link that you posted you would see. I realize you don't understand the physics and calculus but an ARD wont polarize light the way you think it does. Sure light will be polarized when it hits multiple lines just like light being divided by any group of lines but it doesn't amount to the effect you think it is. USO says "Simple polarizer" yeah, that's pretty simple you would get the same effect by placing 15 strings in front of your scope. I.e. hardly anything and any claim therein is akin to Bertrillium-Zantitiuum. </div></div>
here is what i understand...you are outside. you have an ARD/HONEYCOMB/POLARIZER on the end of your scope. light waves are all around you. they are coming at the end of your scope from all directions. the only light waves that will make it to your scopes' lens/your eye are the ones that come from straight ahead of the HONEYCOMB. the other light waves are ABSORBED by the HONEYCOMB/ARD/POLARIZER....hence the term POLARIZER...it may be overly simple....but it does act as a POLARIZER </div></div>
OK, I see your logic but it works slightly different from that but you're on the right track. Light hitting the ARD from an angle would simply be deflected at whatever included angle. Polarizing is actually a little different. Polarized lens work because of the way light is divided when it hits a series of parallel lines. See sunglasses that are polarized have tons of little crystalline lines running parallel to each other and these little lines make light divide kinda like prism does. No without spending all day on the physics, lets just say that any group of lines running parallel is going to polarize light to some degree. But the spacing of ARD lines is simply too far to make any real difference. So yeah they say it's a "simple polarizer" but so is anything else meeting the aforementioned criteria. So does it polarize light, sure just the way that two telephone poles next to each other do, i.e. simply and without real effect.
