Canon SLR Reviews

Canon EW83F Lens Hood for 24 70mm f 2 8L Canon SLR Lens

Specially designed Lens Hood for the CANON 24-79 f/2.8L Lens (CAN 24-70/LSM) / Prevents glare and unwanted light flare

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Buyers: Take Note!
Buyers, if you are purchasing the 24-70 f/2.8 Lens, you will NOT need this hood.

The hood comes WITH the lens! So only purchase this if you need for a replacement or something of that nature. Otherwise you will have more than what you need.

Anyway:

Pros:

- Gets rid of lens flare

- Offers decent protection

- Reversible (To allow easy storage)

Cons:

- Grossly Over-Priced

The cost to make this is very (VERY) cheap, and the mark-up is just insane.

But I would advise not going with knock-offs due to poor construction and longevity.

5 Stars Investment protection
I spend as much time researching how to take proper care of my equipment as I do in choosing the equipment – simple things such as this lens hood will protect your lens from accidental damage. Don’t forget a haze filter or a simple lens protector to allow you to keep it clean without scratching an expensive lens.

3 Stars works perfectly but…
the hood works great. it does precisely what you would want a lens hood to do:

- protects the lens

- reduces incident light

- ‘reverses’ to fit around the lens, which is nice for storing in a camera bag (or backpack, in my case)

the price is absurd, not to mention you get the hood as a ‘free’ accessory when you buy the 24-70mm lens (ie, you pay for it when you get the lens). forget amazon trying to bundle this hood with the lens — that’s a scam, although, giving amazon the benefit of the doubt as they deserve, these were probably paired by a computer program. again canon screwing customers on pieces of plastic (if the user lost the original hood) that really costs canon only a couple dollars to make. the price is inflated because anyone with an L lens will want to replace a hood immediately to protect their expensive glass.

if i lost this hood, i would buy another but not by canon. i’d get a generic brand hood (probably on an auction site) that fits the lens and pay not even half as much than is demanded here. no matter the brand of plastic, the hood will help so i don’t need to spend nearly fifty bucks on a canon brand piece of plastic.

5 Stars Unfortunately, it’s worth the money.
For those of you who are thinking of buying Chinese knockoffs, don’t do it. Depressingly, I’ve tried a few of them, and non of them are any good. Knockoff hoods use cheaper plastics, and manufacturing processes that leave the product warped and in some cases unusable. The edges typically have bad finishes and can leave you with cuts, and the lens mount with scratches or worse. The inner and outer surface are usually not bonded correctly, meaning they don’t give it enough time for the adhesive to cure before moving onto the next phase of cutting the flower petal shape. Their cutters are also obviously over-heated, as you can see where it’s not cutting, but melting the plastic. Last thing to mention is that the inner surface in Canon hoods are lined with a felt like material. Knockoffs do not have this, They use a textured inner surface instead, thereby reducing cost and effectiveness. Do yourself a favor, you’ve spent over a thousand dollars on the lens, don’t ruin it with a twenty dollar piece o’ knockoff.

3 Stars Works fine, but overpriced and included with the lens anyway.
Canon’s lens hoods are an interesting excercise in pricing and marketing. If you buy an L lens, then the hood comes with it anyway – so I suppose this would be a replacement scenario.

If I had to replace the hood on mine, I’d look for an aftermarket solution. There is just no excuse whatsoever for this to cost more than $10 or so…

It is a shaped piece of plastic.

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