Just wondering....has any manufacturer ever released a more narrow lens hood to compensate for the smaller chip-size of most digicams?
Using the default full-size hood means that unnecessary stray light enters the edges, in particular with exposed/bulging/sunlight-
vulnerable wide angles.
Hi Willem Jan,
while I think it would be good to have such specialized lens hoods, this would open a can of worms. This would mean hoods for each and every sensor size available with EOS mount cameras. I think it's unlikely to happen. Especially now, that camera technology and industries are obviously changing their product cycles from the (comparatively) slow cycles of the analog past to the incredible fast cycles that seem to be typical for electronic products. The real innovations that justify a new model new sensors right now, not so much faster AF or other useful improvements.
Will the EOS 1Ds be as long the top model of the (digital) EOS line as the the EOS 1 or 1N was in the past? I guess not. I give it another year or two, then we will have a new top of the line model. Even more so in the 2nd and 3rd line of EOS models. Sensor sizes and number of pixels will change fairly often, maybe until 35mm format size is common again (hopefully) and the pixel number reaches the limit imposed by optical restrictions.
Thomas Bantel
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