On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, mike.wilson wrote: > Hi, > > Thinking (dreaming, more like) about how to become fabulously wealthy, I > wondered if there is a potential market for new lens hoods for DSLRs. > > I assume that the original, 35mm coverage, lenshoods could now be > significantly extended and not impinge on the APS-sized-chip image? > > mike
Most folk seem not to buy lens hoods, unless they come with the lens. I'm amazed at how many folks walk about taking pictures with their tulip-hoods still reverse mounted on their zoom lenses. Perhaps they don't know that they go the other way? Personally, I've got lens hoods on every lens I can find a hood for, and a nice screw-in metal one at that. This means that I have a fair number of older Nikon and oddball hoods fitted to Pentax lenses, often with step-up rings to deal with the 49mm/52mm thing, because Nikon used to make a lot of nice metal hoods. I'm still looking for hoods for my 20 and 24mm screwmount lenses. Wide hoods are hard to find, doubly so in odd filter sizes. I can get a rubber hood for the 24, and may have to do that. And yes, I've got an 80-200 hood on my 60 macro when it's on a DSLR, because it gives more shading and doesn't vignette on digital. I'd do more of this except so many modern lens hoods are custom-designed bayonet-mount affairs. DJE
