 A must have belt. |
| Review Date: November 29, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Jim Krupnik, Watchung, NJ United States |
I don't get the endless stream of complaints about the price of this hood. First, it costs less than thirty Dollars, and not fifty Dollars. No matter, as it is worth either price. Of course, it is plastic. So are many modern guns. Plastic is not a dirty word if it is applied correctly. This hood is very well made, very intricate in design, and a joy to use.
If you only do indoor photography, leave the hood in the bag. If you do open-air, or nightime photography, this hood will save your bacon more often then not. It is a steal in terms of what it will do for you. If you have ever dropped an SLR with a excellent sized lens, you know that they tend to hit the ground lens first. This plastic lens hood not only took the impact of a three foot drop, but it survived intact, and the 10-22 mm S lens it was attached to was indifferent. In the past, a metal lens hood would take the impact and die, and the lens usually suffered some hurt as well. Canon hoods are awe-inspiring, and I prefer plastic over metal when it is caring a lens that took weeks of saving to afford.
One more vital point. If you are interested in a lens hood, you care about fine points. Buy the best protective UV filters that you can afford for all of your lenses. Canon filters are mostly consumer junk. Most filters are junk for that matter. Always buy a filter that is multi-coated on both surfaces, and for a wide ange lens (or zoom), buy a thin multi-coated filter. Rather than reinvent the wheel here, I suggest that you visit the Hoya website for a fine tutorial on filter tech. Hoya Pro 1 super multi coated filters are reasonably priced, and very fine in feature. There are better filters out there, but the Hoya site has a fantastic tutorial. Read it, and be an knowledgeable consumer.
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A must have using out-of-doors
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| Review Date: October 26, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Jorge Andres Hernandez Romanow, Jersey City, NJ USA. |
Using either on EF 16-35mm lenses or EF-S 10-22mm lenses (on 20D or Rebel bodies with 1.6x crop factor) this hood helps to eliminate (I mean reduce a lot) the flare on sunny days or particular lightning conditions..... highly recommended for those who like to shot at the lower end (16mm) of these lenses.
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Huge wide lenshood (EW83E)
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| Review Date: February 22, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Peter Borchard, Boulder, CO |
| I'm using this hood for the Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens on a 20D. It's a bit shocking how huge this hood is until you realize it's really necessary for the very wide field of view. On the Canon 20D, the lens is equivalent to the EF 16-35mm f2.8, only it's f3.5-4.5. Bottom line is that it does the trick and is made to the same excellent feature as the rest of Canon's stuff. |
Expensive But Elemental.
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| Review Date: March 26, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Stefnad, Canada |
| This is an expensive item but any help in reducing flare is a plus to your photos. I have a lens hood for all my lenses. This also helps protect if you bang your lens against something. After costs nearly a thousand dollars on the lens, what's another $33.00. |
Caring item for flare
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| Review Date: March 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Charles L. Griffin Jr., Daytona Beach, Fla |
I already had this lens shade as it came with my 16-35mm L lens. If you buy the 10-22mm zoom (which does not come with a shade), it covers the same all-function angle of view, so it's simple to switch to the lens you are using, depending on full frame use or APS format.
Accurately, such wide-angle zooms are prone to flare in particular conditions, so the shade can help--a small. It also can take a hit from the side, as others have said. It does make stuffing it into a padded Domke insert much tougher. Best to take it off lens and place it in camera bag pocket. Hoya HMC filters are very unassailable, as others said.
As for the lens shade attracting concentration, it's the whole wrap of black camera and huge lens that does it, not the shade. Worse is carrying around those cream-colored Canon teles. That shouts, "Pro Photographer! Deny him access!" |
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