Y'know, I'm still not sure about pictures with the heavy polarising lens effect (mainly because mine's shit and doesn't produce results like that! :-) They do look great and I wish I had a few more like it at the moment for the book, but there's still something artificial looking about them. When desaturated they look fucking superb as B&Ws!

It's hard to judge a camera's smoothness etc from a reduced image, because that's going to depend on what software you use to do it.