Patent: Canon working on lens cap technology!

[analoggrotto]

I absolutely shoot with a lens hood on. Always. I shoot crowded venues and people keep walking and bumping into your camera randomly. lens hood is a essential front element protection for me. better safe than sorry

No problem here, minimal if any problems with flaring and such. I do keep a hoya HD UV filter on everything for protection. Always switching lenses as I prefer primes, and just cant coordinate hoods.

 

[masterpix]

Never lost a lens cap, howver, broke many of those floppy things. I don't think this will last long in anyone camera bag, especially when one is changing lenses frequently.