Hi Sherwin ... After commenting on the hoods last night, I attached the hood from the Takumar 105/2.8 to the 43mm lens, and it seems that it will be a very good choice. The hood is quite deep compared to the standard hood, and is deeper than the 50mm hood. Looking only through the viewfinder of the MX, I did not notice any vignetting, although it seemed that there might be some when using a filter. As it was late, and I was tired, I didn't go much further than this cursory exploration. I'll look further into the matter today.
Be careful about tour choice of hoods. If the interior of the hood is not flat, or dull, black, or flocked, it may be prone to reflecting light around, and adding to or causing flare. Stay away from silver hoods that are silver inside as well. Sherwin Abesamis wrote: > Shel, I was thinking the same thing about getting a different hood for the > 43mm, as I also thought it seemed a bit shallow. They have some > silver-colored metallic lens hoods that are longer than the standard one > that comes with the 43mm at the store I go to, so perhaps I'll pick up one > of those. I got my camera cleaned up nicely today by my local Pentax > repair shop so ready to fire off more exposures. Hopefully I'll have > something nice to submit to this month's PUG. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
