Which Lens Hood?

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Which shape lens hood is best, tulip or round.
Or is there a better one

which ones do you use?
 
An invisible one.
 
I like the flower ones, they give the lens a much cooler look :D
 
if you are using wide angle lens, its also better to use tulip
 
i saw the flower ones and thought, surely they must let light in through the gaps, defeating the object!
 
If you're using a wangle, particularly like the Sigma 10-20, the lens hood is so feeble its hardly worth bothering with. Tulip ones are needed for wangles basically. I fitted my hood to my sigma yesterday and didn't notice any reduction at all in the flares. Pointless.
 
i've got a wide angle collapsable hood. uncollapsed its about 20mm deep. i fitted it last week when walking through Wepre Park, didn't help one little bit, had to hold my hand up to block the sun.
 
The best lens hood shape is rectangular, same shape as the image frame. Petal hoods are effectively square but easier to make and more robust - look through one as the lens sees it, and it appears square.

But a lens hood for a zoom lens can only be of optimum efficiency at the shortest focal length, or it will vignette. And if you use a full frame lens, eg Canon EF, on a crop format body which reduces the field of view, then it will always be less than optimum size.

However, apart from shading the lens, hoods give excellent protection and can never reduce image quality - even if a less than optimum hood might not improve it much in some conditions. Whereas a protection filter does degrade pictures, mainly by inducing flare - even if only slightly, providing they're high quality.

If you want a real lens hood, the Lee bellows hoods are adjustable and work as a filter holder too. Excellent :thumbs: http://www.leefilters.com/camera/products/range/ref:I46C9C213A68B5/
 
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