Olympus lens hoods

[Dangermouse]

Is the 72mm lens hood for the 12-100f4 the same fit as the 40-150f2.8 also 72mm, the reason I ask is, the hood for the 40-150 is a bit cumbersome for a smallish lens and does work well but then takes away a lot of light, I think the cut out one for the 12-100 would work much better on not so bright days, I know I could just remove it, but it does offer a bit of of protection for the front element.

 

[the black fox]

I have a few screw in collapsible rubber ones in different sizes to suit . Quiet cheap on evil bay and take up no room when folded

 

[Kell]

There are lots of reason for the shapes - why some are tubular and some are petal - as well as the overall length.

But all lens hoods are designed to work correctly on the lens they're specified for.

Far from 'taking away light' I'd argue that it's probably taking away unnecessary light.

Even if it technically 'fits' it may not actually do the correct job of cutting out things like lens flare and preventing low-contrast, washed out images.

I'm guessing that the 12-100 version is much like any super-wide lens hood and is fairly short, because otherwise you'd see it in the corners of your images shot at 12mm.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Is the 72mm lens hood for the 12-100f4 the same fit as the 40-150f2.8 also 72mm, the reason I ask is, the hood for the 40-150 is a bit cumbersome for a smallish lens and does work well but then takes away a lot of light, I think the cut out one for the 12-100 would work much better on not so bright days, I know I could just remove it, but it does offer a bit of of protection for the front element.

what do you men " take away a lot of light" ? they take away none of the light forming the image. The size of a lens hood is designed to be as small as possible to remove as much of the non image forming light as possible.
This depends almost entirely on the focal length and aperture of the lens.. shorter focal lengths the smaller the hood. the longer the lengths the larger the hood.

 

[Nod]

You could probably get away with the smaller hood and use a hand if/when there's sunlight hitting the front element because the smaller hood's too small. Not ideal when hand holding but possibly an option if the body/lens combo isn't too heavy - you could probably adapt your technique to hold the lens by the hood but be aware that the hood's attachment is probably going to be the weakest link.