Managed to misplace the lens hood for my Canon 16-35mm F4 a few weeks ago. Was absolutely staggered to find that a genuine Canon replacement from Amazon UK costs in the region of £50!! £50 for a itsy, bitsy piece of plastic??? Seriously?? Managed to find it cheaper using www.curiua.com - Amazon Italy brought the price down to around £30 but even still I baulked at that price.... In the end I gambled on a compatible hood from Ebay for less than £10 knowing that it would have the nice flock lining inside the hood and would take an age to arrive.
In the end it took 2 weeks to arrive (not actually the slowest delivery experience I've had from Ebay!) I planned to line the inside of the hood myself with some sticky back flock that I already had - I figured that with it being quite a shallow hood it would be pretty easy to do....
Anyway, the actual hood itself was very well made. I was expecting some cheap plastic with rough edges and flimsy lock button but I was very happy with it. The lock button has the nice spring loaded mechanism as the original and the plastic is nicely finished. Now that I've lined it, it would be very hard to distinguish from the original - the markings would give it away.
Oh.... the original hood turned up 2 days before the replacement arrived. Might put some pics up later if anyone's interested!
Anyway... Rant about original Canon lens hoods over now!!
In the end it took 2 weeks to arrive (not actually the slowest delivery experience I've had from Ebay!) I planned to line the inside of the hood myself with some sticky back flock that I already had - I figured that with it being quite a shallow hood it would be pretty easy to do....
Anyway, the actual hood itself was very well made. I was expecting some cheap plastic with rough edges and flimsy lock button but I was very happy with it. The lock button has the nice spring loaded mechanism as the original and the plastic is nicely finished. Now that I've lined it, it would be very hard to distinguish from the original - the markings would give it away.
Oh.... the original hood turned up 2 days before the replacement arrived. Might put some pics up later if anyone's interested!
Anyway... Rant about original Canon lens hoods over now!!
the pictures seemed to look ok so I'm hoping for a similar experience to yours. 
