Just found out that polarized sunglasses and helmet visors are a bad combination. I was greeted with a whole new colorful world!
Seriously, it almost made me nauseous.
Just found out that polarized sunglasses and helmet visors are a bad combination. I was greeted with a whole new colorful world!
Seriously, it almost made me nauseous.
It’s even worse if the polarization of each is rotated.
The closer to 90° from one polarized lens to the next, the less light comes through. At 90° rotation lens-to-lens, all light is blocked.
Try it with your sunglasses and the visor removed from the helmet. Slowly rotate the visor and you should see it get darker and darker.
It’s just my sunglasses that are polarized, not the visor itself. Looking at glass or plexiglass with a filter, you see colors a little like this: