On 18 Dec 2004 at 19:29, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > This is something I've advocated for the longest time. In some instances > going up two sizes is also acceptable. Just don't be afraid to experiment > a bit, and use the largest hood feasible for a given lens. Invariably the > sliding hoods on a lot of Pentax lenses (M75~150, > A*200/2.8 as examples), and even on other brands of lens (notably some > Leica lenses) are way too shallow to handle many lighting situations.
The strange thing is that you'd expect that the hoods that mount independent of filters like the rectangular ones for the WA Leica M lenses still aren't optimised. I really like the Heliopan hoods as they are straight double threaded cylinders which can be stacked so that the length can be optimised for a given lens. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
