Can I use a circular polarizing filter through teleprompter glass? I'd like to get rid of the reflections on reading glasses. Thank you.
ASKED BY · Matt Halvorsen · BROOKINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA · 16 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:42:50
Does not recommend circular polarizing filters for indoor shooting as they negatively affect skin tone; suggests repositioning lights and adjusting angles to eliminate reflections instead.
Recommends linear (not circular) polarizing filters to eliminate reflections from LCD monitors and eyeglasses; notes they reduce subsurface scattering and can make skin appear less shiny but may cause LCD screens to appear black.
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42:27no LCD screen on it so to change anything on the menus you need there have to run the software that connects to it or you have to have the multi-view up because that's where the menus appear only in the multi-view so you can't you You have to have a monitor hooked up to it to change the settings. Next question. All right. Matt Halvorsen in Brookings, South Dakota is asking,
42:50can I use a circular polarizing filter through teleprompter glass? I'd like to get rid of the reflections on reading glasses. Thank you. Alexander. Can you? Yes. In my experience, I don't recommend it. Polarizing filters, I use these, you know, know if you're shooting stills outside and you're you're trying to shoot a sky or shoot water or something like that that can really help but i find that if you put a circular polarizing filter
43:20and shoot someone inside i've i've never had good results with it it really messes with their skin tone uh so generally the correct solution my book would be repositioning lights getting the correct angle until you don't see those reflections. I mean I'm wearing glasses, I don't have a teleprompter, but unless I look upwards at my key and fill lights, you're not really gonna see reflections
43:45in my glasses. Courtney, you know the thing about teleprompters I reckon. Yes, you can use a, I don't think it, not a circularly polarized filter, but a linearly polarized filter. It's what you need, because then the light all going in one direction, multi-directions. It filters out. That's the ones that filter out reflections. So use a linear polarizing filter. And he's right. It does make your skin look, you see the subsurface scattering,
44:16but you don't see the highlight reflecting off the little sweat, the shine on people's faces. So it reduces shine if they're a sweater. I mean, if they're a perspiring person, then also the other thing to keep in mind is if you've got an LCD monitor behind you, let's say for something, you know, informational display on the background, if you put a polarizing filter on the camera,
44:39you've got a 50-50 chance that that screen will just be black. Even though it has something displayed on it to your eyeballs, it'll be black when it comes into the camera. When you said sweater, I was thinking, what, like a cable net or a cardigan? Sorry. I filter it filters out sweaters entirely well AI can do it right now you just say take me out of
45:01this cardigan and put me in a three-piece suit next question all right this one's from Rajan Shandell in Los Angeles any use cases for meta glasses in hands-free demos would we ever see this on the panel or after hours so this is interesting I don't know what the I don't know know what the ability to get live video out of it is but i do think if that that point of view