[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lagittaja:
I'm not sure if there's a dedicated "polarization" thread over here but since you guys (and gals?) are talking about it here...I'll talk about it as well and post a wall of text while I'm at it.

Sorry if it's messy :D

This is what my One M7 sees. (Let's stress that point, camera sensor =/= human eye)

I took two sets of pictures exactly for that reason.

As I was typing this I decided to take a third set of images.

How I took the images:

M7 is on a tripod. It is placed above my 10 and is parallel to it

The 10 is laying flat, 100% manual brightness + sRBG mode with temperature +2 ticks (temperature setting range is -4...0...+4)

My 10 has a Tianma panel and it is 8 days old (it's been only a week? jeez time flies)

First set of images is with "AE/AF lock" eg. AWB and exposure and autofocus etcetera is locked after I tap to focus and hold..

The lock was engaged with nothing in front of M7 camera lens.

Camera uses the same settings for all three images.

Second set of images I just tapped to refocus without holding eg. camera is free to do whatever it wants!

Third set of images I locked AE/AF when the polarization lens was vertically in front and then took the three images.

Image order/what I did:

First set

1. lock exposure with no lens, take image

2. put cheapo polarized clip on lens horizontally in front of camera, take image

3. rotate cheapo lens so it is vertically, take image

Second set

4. release exposure lock by tap to refocus, take image with no lens

5. put cheapo polarized clip on lens in front of camera horizontally, take image

6. rotate cheapo lens so it is vertically, take image

Third set

(lock exposure with polarized lens

vertically

in front of M7 camera lens)

7. take image with no lens in front of camera

8. put cheapo polarized clip on lens horizontally in front of camera, take image

9. rotate cheapo lens so it is vertically, take image

Now that you've read that above text and hopefully understand what you will be looking at, here's the album.

Images are in order just like described above.

https://goo.gl/photos/ZTSNWfVxGhLd7j6B7

And to help comparison: here are the images, in sets of three, side by side, in the exact same order as described above.

First set (AE/AF lock 1st image)

Second set (No AE/AF lock eg. full auto)

Third set (AE/AF lock 3rd image)

Now, if someone who doesn't own the 10 looks at these and goes erhmagerd that's hideous, it's not like that in real life.

Remember that our eyes see differently compared to a camera sensor.

If I would have to compare having the lens horizontal vs vertical, I'd say the biggest difference is just the white shift to "holy batman that's blue (ish)" and perceived brightness dropping maybe 20%.

It is hard to describe and quantify..

My two desktop monitors have the usual 45 degree polarization and if I have that cheapo lens in front my eye at 45 degree angle as well > the difference is an order of magnitude larger than it is with the display of the HTC 10.

Edit:

Well, there is a thread in the Q&A category about the polarization but it's just drowning in the flood of actual Q&A and help threads..

I'll move this post to that thread if a mod tells me to but I'd rather keep this in the discussion category which is a little bit more slower number of threads wise..

And besides..this polarization thing should be a "general discussion" thread rather than a "question" or "help" thread.