Helpful Posts: I have a 28-105mm lens...what size UV filters and lens hood would I need? Can't seem to figure this one out.
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3rd March 2011, 07:08 PM #1
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What size filters and lens hood needed?
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3rd March 2011, 07:17 PM #2
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
Okay, I figured out I need 58mm filters.
Anyone know about the lens hood?
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3rd March 2011, 07:44 PM #3Moderator
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
Sarah
What make of lens is it? You'd need to go onto the manufacturers website or that of a reputable online retailer to find out which hood is made for that lens.
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3rd March 2011, 08:15 PM #4
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
Thanks, Donald.
It's a Canon EF 28-105, 3.5-4.5
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3rd March 2011, 08:18 PM #5Moderator
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
This is the hood you need.
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3rd March 2011, 08:33 PM #6
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
Thanks!
Do you know if I can get a generic or cheaper one? Or would I even want to?
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3rd March 2011, 08:39 PM #7Moderator
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
Don't know about cheaper or generic. You'd need to do a search on that. But probably someone else on here will know the answer.
Originally Posted by SGerke
There are many folk on here who would argue that you should always have a hood fitted. I tend not to use them as I have the square filter system ring adapters fitted to my lenses all the time, so that I can quickly move the filter holder from one lens to the other. With these fitted, you can't fit a hood. The one that I do use the hood on more often than the others is the Tokina 11-16 f2.8.
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3rd March 2011, 11:43 PM #8
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
There are any number of 58mm third party lens hoods available on eBay at pretty inexpensive prices. I use a third party lens hood on my 17-55mm f/2.8 IS lens, which at a thousand + U.S. dollar price, should have come with a hood, and I have encountered no problems using such a hood. It is not flocked inside the hood but, the interior is non-reflective. It stays on the lens every bit as well as the OEM hoods and the images I shoot don't know if I am using the overpriced Canon OEM hood or the reasonably priced Chinese knockoff. I have a feeling that the Chinese manufacturers just bought a Canon hood and copied it. They did a pretty good job but, casting a plastic hood is not exactly rocket science technology...
http://photography.shop.ebay.com/i.h....c0.m270.l1313
I think that one of the reasons I am seldom bothered with flare is that I regularly use a hood.
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4th March 2011, 02:10 PM #9
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
Thanks, Richard! I'll look into those. I think I'll take my camera with me lens hood shopping so I can "try them on" and see how they fit.
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8th March 2011, 09:28 AM #10
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Re: What size filters and lens hood needed?
The ideal hood will depend on the crop factor of the camera. See how to control flare in CIC tutorials
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