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Opteka 58mm Screw Mount Flower Petal Shaped Lens Hood with Lock

This lens hood shades the lens from stray light, improving your contrast and image quality. In inclement weather, it can assist in keeping moisture or wind-blown debris off the lens, and protects the front barrel from the inevitable impacts against walls, door frames, and other real-life obstacles.

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2 Stars bad quality thing
Although the price is low, the quality is pretty bad. The edge is not smooth even. When screwing onto the lens, it’s too tight to adjust to a perfect position, also the black color can fade and make the lens thread very dirty. Pay some more and get the real canon one or just save this 10 bucks.

3 Stars Don’t waste your money
I ‘m as much at fault for purchasing this lens hood as the manufacturer is for selling it. It’s a cheap knockoff of the Canon slip notch lens hood. Spend the extra cash on the Canon. Don’t bother kidding yourself and spending the money on the Opteka. I even read the reviews and thought, it can’t be that bad and the price was great!. You get what you pay for. On the three Canon lenses I have, I can only screw this cover on about 1/8 of the way, and 9/10 it’s on cross threaded. I’m afraid of damaging the threads on my lens. It’s not worth the cost of shipping to return it so it will collect dust in a corner somewhere until it gets tossed out with the trash. Think quality and longevity, not price!!

2 Stars Cheap
It’s a cheap lens hood. I should have spent more to get one that works better. Using it with the 18-55mm kit lens + UV filter on my Canon XSi, the lens is visible while zoomed out to ~18-22mm. Past 22mm it’s not visible, but it’s annoying to not have the entire field of view that the lens affords me. The threads are cheap and it screws on pretty roughly, such that I am worried about damaging the threads on my UV filter. The plastic is cheap. The adjustment ring, while it’s nice that it’s there, is cheap. It does the job, but it’s annoying. Do yourself a favor and buy a nicer hood.

3 Stars Lens hood
This lens hood was not easy to mount on the lens and because it’s plastic the screw threads could be damaged.

5 Stars re-check your purpose.
This hood does a fabulous job as a protective device and as a shade for lighting issues across the lens.

I got my Canon EOS Rebel XSI as a gift and it came with a great 18-55mm lens. The hood is actually in the way

for vertical and standard distant flash shots. This is no fault of the hood. It should probably be used

on a longer lens.

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Opteka 55mm Screw Mount Flower Petal Shaped Lens Hood with Lock

This lens hood shades the lens from stray light, improving your contrast and image quality. In inclement weather, it can assist in keeping moisture or wind-blown debris off the lens, and protects the front barrel from the inevitable impacts against walls, door frames, and other real-life obstacles.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars good buy
This type of lens protector is very good and looks greeat with the fujifilm s5000. It does its job flawlessly

5 Stars Great Lens Hood!
Whenever using my wide angle at 18mm you can see the edges of the hood slightly, however anything zoomed in at 25mm or more this lens hood proves efficient! And it’s very strong and sturdy (will definitely protect your lens!).

3 Stars Generic 55mm and all plastic
This is reasonably priced for what it is, but it’s a generic threaded hood. The hood ring for a Sony Alpha / Konika-Minolta lense won’t be used.

Since the threads are so fine, the coupler REALLY should be aluminum rather than plastic. You need to be very careful when screwing this on so as to not strip the threads on the hood.

There is an adjustment ring on the back which, once you’re lined up, you can use as a positive stop for future remove/adds and to help keep the hood from spinning loose.

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