The fuselage is dark red which doesn’t help. I’m thinking that the yellow lenses doesn’t give the contrast needed between the airplane and background.
The other effect is that the yellow/orange would tend to raise the brightness of the fuselage, but make the shadows darker on a clear day. That's because the filter passes yellow and tend to block blue, so the shadows (which on a sunny California day) are largely illuminated by blue light from the blue sky.
You may be able to count on color contrasts which I can't (red in particular looks a lot darker to me than to normal people, apparently, and blue brighter) but I do best with neutral color/gray on blue sky days, and much better with yellow/brown in the midwest (where even clear sky is much less blue). Then I paint my fuselage white and make it 3x bigger than everyone else! Ambermatic works well for me in the widest array of conditions, but unfortunately they are not made any more and the only place to get them is at vintage sunglass places. They are bright yellow under dark conditions, go to brownish neutral in bright light and hot conditions, and dark blue-gray in bright light and cold conditions like snow.
One thing I found driving back from Oregon one year - they also work gangbusters at night, the yellow makes everything brighter, just like those goofy tactical sunglass commercials.
Brett
Topic: Polarized Sunglasses (Read 941 times)
