Alternative lens hood options...

Rhuarc

Ok, so I currently have 4 lenses, and I'm looking at getting lens hoods for them. I REALLY don't want to spend the full Canon price for the hoods, so I'm trying to consider some alternative options like aftermarket plastic, rubber, or metal. Here are the lenses I have:

70-300 58mm
28-105 58mm
50/1.8 52mm
18-55 58mm

So I have several questions.

1) Does anyone have any reccomendations on brands of aftermarket hoods?
2) Would I be able to get one hood for all three 58mm lenses?
3) If possible it would be nice to be able to use filters iwth the hoods in place.
4) I'd like to keep it under $15 per hood if possible.

So if anyone can point me to some decent solutions I would appreciate it. I've found that there aren't too many web reviews of this stuff. One place I have found is Lenshoods from Camerafilters.com.

Thanks in advance!!

Edit: I've been doing some more checking, and it seems that B+W (the brand) makes lens hoods in both matte rubber and black machined alluminum. Anyone familiar with these?

USAIR

Not sure but this might help
Homemade Lens Hoods


Fred

ivar

USAIR wrote:

Not sure but this might help
Homemade Lens Hoods


Fred

Hah, I was looking for the same thing. It has been posted here before.

Rhuarc

I'm going to try these out, the only poblem is I don't think these will work with my zooms. On the zoom lens when it is at it's widest there is a very small area of the barrell that the hood could be slipped around. It would fit, but then when the lens was zoomed to tele I'm not sure if the hood would move with the barrell or if the barrel would just move through the hood and the hood would stay stuck to the other part. I'll defenitley try them though and let everyone know how they work with a zoom.

ivar wrote:

Hah, I was looking for the same thing. It has been posted here before.

Rhuarc

So I had an idea. If I make one of these custom hoods, I'd like a better way to attach it to the lens than using a rubber band. Do they make a ring that could be used to attach the hood to? So basically it would be a ring that would screw into the filter threads on the lens. I could attach the lens hood to this ring. So if I wanted to have a filter on the lens the filter would go on first, then I would screw the ring with the hood attached onto the filter.

Do most UV Filters have threads to screw other stuff onto them? And does the kind of ring I'm talkinga bout even exist?

aussiepentaxboy

I too have three Canon lenses and no hoods. So far i have done without except for my 50ml- i bought a rubber one that screws into the filter ring.
Im buggered if im gunna pay an extra $40-50 dollars for a lens hood when i think one should be supplied !!!!!!!! (my pet hate) when u buy the lens.

Regards

Blair

Rhuarc

Well, if I come up with a good way to attach the homeade lens hoods I'll take some shots and let everyone know.

Rhuarc

Rhuarc wrote:

Well, if I come up with a good way to attach the homeade lens hoods I'll take some shots and let everyone know.

Well, I tried the lens hoods that you can printout, and suffice it to say I am not impressed. I tried several different materials, and in all case I felt like the hood was always in the process of falling off. So I'm back in the market for cheaper aftermarket hoods. Has anyone tried rubber lens hoods? I've noticed a couple of brands, B&H has a brand called B+W, and Adorama has a self branded option. If I don't hear from anyone I'll probably get one of th B+W telephoto options from B&H to try on my 70-300.

Anyone?

ziggy53

Rhuarc wrote:

Well, I tried the lens hoods that you can printout, and suffice it to say I am not impressed. I tried several different materials, and in all case I felt like the hood was always in the process of falling off. So I'm back in the market for cheaper aftermarket hoods. Has anyone tried rubber lens hoods? I've noticed a couple of brands, B&H has a brand called B+W, and Adorama has a self branded option. If I don't hear from anyone I'll probably get one of th B+W telephoto options from B&H to try on my 70-300.

Anyone?

I do use rubber lens hoods for prime lenses, but I don't use, or recommend, screw-on hoods for zoom lenses. The hood can only be sized for the wide end of the range, or you will need at least two hoods to cover any of the range.

"Petal" type hoods really are fairly effective and extremely convenient.

"Flags" are simple devices to block single source lights, they work like the visor in your car, and, by themselves or in conjunction with a small hood, are very effective, if inconvenient.

Rhuarc

Hmm, if that is the case how do plastic lens hoods for zoom lenses work? Wouldn't they have the same problem for sizing at different focal lengths?

What brand of rubber hoods do you use ziggy?

ziggy53

Rhuarc wrote:

Hmm, if that is the case how do plastic lens hoods for zoom lenses work? Wouldn't they have the same problem for sizing at different focal lengths?

What brand of rubber hoods do you use ziggy?

"Petal" lens hoods (lens shades) are (idealy) designed to give maximum shading protection for the widest angle of the zoom, and moderate protection for the longest length (transverse/cross lighting).

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=342433&postcount=16
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/lens-flare.htm

Rhuarc

ziggy53 wrote:

"Petal" lens hoods (lens shades) are (idealy) designed to give maximum shading protection for the widest angle of the zoom, and moderate protection for the longest length (transverse/cross lighting).

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=342433&postcount=16
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/lens-flare.htm

Awesome, thanks for the links. What brand of rubber hoods do you employ? There are several brands out there.

ziggy53

Rhuarc wrote:

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What brand of rubber hoods do you use ziggy?

I believe I wound up mostly using the hoods from Adorama, simply because I was purchasing something else from them to combine in shipping. I also have at least one rubber hood that came with a used lens, and that hood is of unknown origin.

Rhuarc

Thank you. I'll have to try out one of the hoods from Adorama.