I've been a professional photographer for 40 years. I ALWAYS use a rubber lens hood for my camera lenses. As a lens hood to protect your pictures from lens flare, all lens hoods are pretty useless. None of them extend far enough to really offer practical protection. But, as a device to protect the LENS from physical damage rubber lens hoods are EXCELLENT! Think of them as a big giant rubber bumper that absorbs shock of the lens is ever accidently banged against something. I get about a year or two of "life" out of such lens hoods before they begin to tear away from the metal screw-ring and have to be replaced. So, I always buy them two-at-a-time! I think of them as a disposable safety device to the protection of the lens.Zeikos ZE-LH58 58mm Soft Rubber Lens Hood Zeikos ZE-LH58 58mm Soft Rubber Lens Hood
The price is so low on this that I took a chance and bought two. This was a good move.
I've had many of these collapsible hoods over the years. What you care about is:
1. It must shield the lens from flare.
2. You must be able to pop it out or collapse it without taking your eye from the view finder.
3. It must screw cleanly into the delicate filter threads on the end of the lens, and accept filters and lens caps into its own threads.
4. It must fit in your kit bag.
This hood scores perfectly on #1-#3. It is large in diameter when collapsed, so you do need a bit of care to get it into your bag, particularly a small bag. But I don't see how any rubber hood could do a better job of this, so I did not deduct any points.
Highly recommended.
I'm not a professional photographer like some of the other reviewers, but have been taking film and digital using SLR for many years. I think these are a good deal, both for lens protection and photo quality, but found the threads to be somewhat coarse. Not as cool looking as some of the other lens hoods, but a whole lot cheaper and more versatile.
On my SX10is it definitely does a better job with lens flair than the stock hood. I use a 58mm adaptor to attach it to the bayonette mount. I do have to check for vignetting before wide angle shots. The threaded portion is equivalent in length to about 2 filters on its own. It does block the flash. It is quite bulky, but retracts quickly so it adds little length.
Product is overall good, but I have an EF-S 18-55mm, and if the hood is fully extended, anything below 24mm focal length, you can see the edges of the hood in the frame. Also, though it's not a big deal, the outer rim/edge has small chunks of rubber affixed to it from manufacturing still left over.
Overall though, it scores fairly well- A few big pluses, is that it has threads of it's own, to allow filters to be attached, and that it can also be adjusted without looking away from the viewfinder.
Especially for the price, I would recommend it.
This lens hood is inexpensive and it works. The problem that I have when using it on my Canon 18/55mm lens is that when the lens is on it's widest setting, the round edge of the filter shows on the photo.
I bought two of these for my "kit" lenses that I got with/for my Rebel T1i, and they work just fine. They seem to be well constructed, and they can extend or collapse into 3 different configurations. Since Canon does not include any sort of lens hood with their lenses (at least not the ones I purchased) these are an economical alternative. The soft rubber also helps cushion the lens from those accidental bumps.
I was a little disappointed with this lens hood. After just a little use the rubber ring that holds its self into the plastic ring broke loose and thus made the whole lens hood useless. I can honestly say that I did not abuse the lens hood and only had used it three or four times before the failure. Again this may of been a factory failure and not something that others find happening.
It does what is says... provides shade for the lens and protects against bumps. I purchased for use with the Canon 18-55mm kit lens, and it needs to be rolled back at bit at the widest lens zoom factor, but not a big problem. I like it. - Lens Hoods - Digital Camera Accessory - Photography - Lens Accessories'
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