Loosey Goosey Lens Hood

[Tabor Warren Photography]

I recently got a steal on a used 24mm 1.4L II. As you probably suspected by now, the lens hood shakes. It doesn't rotate after it 'clicks', but it definitely moves around as I move the camera and is not firm like the other lenses. I was offered a full refund, but the glass is flawless and I am hoping there is some way to jerry-rig the thing so that the public doesn't see the rigging, but it still works as it should.

I am going to continue working on it, but I appreciate any ideas. Surly among the photogs here, we can brainstorm a solution.

Thank you for your ideas,
-Tabor

 

[Quasimodo]

No solution?..., but it sound like my 135L and all other 135's I have tried

some sort of fitting should be possible? I am thinking along the lines of what a friend of mine came up with for the sagging inner barrel of the 24-105L (when carrying it in a strap). He bought the kind of plastic/rubber bracelets you see young people use. I tried it myself on my own copy and the inner barrel never slides down any more. You feel that it is there when twisting the zoom, but better than the alternative. If you could find a type of rubbery material that glues to the inner side of the hood by the locking mechanism, but that has no stickiness to it after it has dried, it would both stop the shaking and possible looseness after it has been twisted into position?