All my lenses have a lens hood fitted on them semi-permanently with the exception of the A50/2.8 Macro, which has such a deeply inset front element that for most purposes a hood is unnecessary.
I use screw in metal lens hoods for every lens that was not supplied with at least a rigid plastic lens hood. B&H Photo stocks "generic" screw-in metal lens hoods (usually Kalt brand) for very reasonable money (about $10 apiece). There are also tons of applicable lens hoods available in good dealers' used bits bins ... I use a Nikon HN-7 and an Olympus Zuiko 28/3.5 for two of my lenses (FA135 and DA21 respectively) that I purchased for about $1 apiece that way. Good metal lens hoods for tele, normal and wide angle field of view from B+W and other top brands cost $25-40. I have one of those in tele model on the FA77. Godfrey On Oct 24, 2006, at 6:24 AM, Dave Kennedy wrote: > Sounds like most people use the hoods to protect the lens, which begs > the question: do you use hoods on *all* your lenses? I currently only > have hoods on my DA18-55, and DA50-200. I don't have hoods for the > primes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
