An 18mm lens field of view on the DSLR bodies is about the same as a 28mm lens for film SLRs. Buy a lens hood for a 28mm lens with the appropriate 58mm threads and you'll be fine. I see wide-angle lens hoods like this for prices from $9.50 to $60 at B&H Photo.
Godfrey On Nov 14, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Pawel Bartuzi wrote: > Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> Hmmm ... just curious, why are you using a UV filter on this >> lens? Are you >> using a lens hood? If so, what hood are you using? >> > I use the filter just for front element protection, as I do on many of > my other lenses. Call me paranoid. :-) On most of other lenses > using UV > filter is just because of my laziness but as for this particular > lens I > believe it is so wide that it would be very difficult to find a hood > large enough to effectively protect front element. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
