Lens hood for my new 50mm 1.8 canon...

[alfa147x]

I just bought a 50mm 1.8 canon lens and was looking for a lens hood, the other 2 lens's i have one came with a round hood and the other I bought a round one because i have horrid lens flare at a dance performance so I went to wolf and bought a collapsible round hood so now how do i choose for my new canon ?

Does it make a difference if i buy one that screws on to the lens and one that does not use the mount for it? Original canon vs 99c ebay?

Thanks!

Thanks corkyg for the 55 - 50 correction

 

[corkyg]

I am unaware of a 55mm f/1.8 Canon EF lens. I believe it might be 50mm. The standard Canon hood is the ES-62. But, the collapsable rubber one should do the job nicely - and it can be stored on the lens ready to use.

That little lens is very good value.

 

[alfa147x]

Canon:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...62_Lens_Hood_with.html

Ebay! :
http://cgi.ebay.com/CROWN-Shap...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Jawo]

I always thought petal hoods were for wide angle lenses and circular hoods were for all other lenses.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Jawo
I always thought petal hoods were for wide angle lenses and circular hoods were for all other lenses.

That is not a myth. That's the way all my lens hoods are.

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: Jawo
I always thought petal hoods were for wide angle lenses and circular hoods were for all other lenses.

That is not a myth. That's the way all my lens hoods are.

This brings about another question, how do you identify a wide angle canon lens?

 

[Jawo]

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: Jawo
I always thought petal hoods were for wide angle lenses and circular hoods were for all other lenses.

That is not a myth. That's the way all my lens hoods are.

This brings about another question, how do you identify a wide angle canon lens?

Wide angle is anything wider than the "normal" POV, which IIRC, is 50mm. Therefore your lens is right on the line.

Wikipedia

For a full-frame 35 mm camera with a 36 mm by 24 mm format, the diagonal measures 43.3 mm and by custom, the normal lens adopted by most manufacturers is 50 mm. Also by custom, a lens of focal length 35 mm or less is considered wide-angle.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Jawo

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: Jawo
I always thought petal hoods were for wide angle lenses and circular hoods were for all other lenses.

That is not a myth. That's the way all my lens hoods are.

This brings about another question, how do you identify a wide angle canon lens?

Wide angle is anything wider than the "normal" POV, which IIRC, is 50mm. Therefore your lens is right on the line.

Wikipedia

For a full-frame 35 mm camera with a 36 mm by 24 mm format, the diagonal measures 43.3 mm and by custom, the normal lens adopted by most manufacturers is 50 mm. Also by custom, a lens of focal length 35 mm or less is considered wide-angle.

Ehhh... because the 50mm is going to be mounted on a 1.6x crop camera, it'll effectively be around 80mm, which is not a wide angle. On a Canon 1.6x crop camera, anything below 30mm would be considered wider than "normal." I personally don't consider a lens on a 1.6x body wide until around 24mm.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: Jawo
I always thought petal hoods were for wide angle lenses and circular hoods were for all other lenses.

That is not a myth. That's the way all my lens hoods are.

Petal hoods are designed to maximize coverage. The lens projects a circular image onto the sensor, but the sensor itself is rectangular. That's why on petal hoods the top and bottom petals protrude out further than the left and right petals. The difference between the amount of protrusion depends on the focal length of the lens.

All wides should have a petal hood to maximize hood coverage. As you get to more telephoto lenses, the petal form matters less and less because the angle of the light that's coming in is becoming more and more acute due to the decreased field of view.

IMO the best lens hood for a zoom is one that varies with zoom. The wider the lens zooms the shorter the lens hood becomes, and the more telephoto the lens zooms, the longer the hood becomes. I only know of one lens that does this:

Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L (look at the second picture)

http://www.photozone.de/8Revie...anon_2470_28/index.htm

 

[dug777]

My 18-135mm Nikkor came with a petal, and it seems to work fine

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: dug777
My 18-135mm Nikkor came with a petal, and it seems to work fine

It needs the petal for the 18mm end. Petal shapes are needed from ultrawide to around 70mm. Past 70mm it doesn't make too much of a difference.

 

[corkyg]

All good points Fuzzy - but there are minor exceptions. Here is my family of lenses, all Canon except for the Tamron macro. All have hoods that came with them.

Lenses

The exception is in the back row on the right - the EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS lens. It is a big piece of glass and it has a petal hood - but a very deep petal hood.

All these hoods are stored on the lenses by mounting them on backwards.

 

[alfa147x]

ok so my lens might come with a hood?

 

[alfa147x]

ok never mind :

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52mm Snap-On Lens Cap
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Lens Dust Cap E (Rear)
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1-Year Warranty

thats all that comes with it...

 

[corkyg]

Only the top of the line lenses come with hoods.

What you are getting is standard. While that lens is very inexpensive, it is an excellent lens, highly rated, and great value.

I still like the collapsible rubber hood for it.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Ehhh... because the 50mm is going to be mounted on a 1.6x crop camera, it'll effectively be around 80mm, which is not a wide angle. On a Canon 1.6x crop camera, anything below 30mm would be considered wider than "normal." I personally don't consider a lens on a 1.6x body wide until around 24mm.

actually, for canon, anything wider than 27 mm is wider than normal, and anything longer than 27 mm is longer than normal. the 'normal' 50 mm lens is actually slightly telephoto on a regular 35 mm frame.


i've never used a hood with my 50 f/1.8

 

[alfa147x]

god i havnt been soo impatient for something since i got my first camera body, and my first lens!!!!!!!!! (this is my 3rd lens) sooo excited