Sporgon said:
privatebydesign said:
The hood is a necessity for every lens that can take one. But as awinphoto points out, you don't need to get the overpriced Canon one as there are many third party options.
Aargh ! I don't know where you got your third party hood for this lens (and the 100/2) but all the ones I tried just kept falling off ! Every time someone pushed past me they would knock it off and then apologise profusely whilst I tried to hide my embarrassment at having been a cheap-skate. The proper Canon one is actually pretty secure when clipped on properly. Maybe there are better third party ones out there than I tried.
I put my hand up and admit my only experiences with third party hoods are using other peoples and back in the days of the FD where we all had rubber screw on hoods! I am a cheapskate too but always get the Canon hood (maybe that is why my 50 f1.4 has lasted so long
). I suppose that makes me a fanboy or blinded by Canon or whatever, and the truth is my 24-70 hood is pretty loose nowadays........
The modern third party hood I have used most often is a white one for the 70-200 f2.8, it works really well but I am sure there is massive quality variation.