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The Lens Hood is one of the most important accessory you need for each lens you own.A lens hood provides multiple functions: preventing image-degrading lens flare by blocking stray light from striking the surface of the lens, it enables your lens to give you the sharpest photographs with the best contrast and most vivid colors, in inclement weather, it can assist in keeping moisture or wind-blown debris off the lens; and it protects the front barrel from the inevitable impacts against walls, door frames, and other real-life obstacles.
Canon ET 65B Lens Hood for EF 70 300mm f 4 5 5 6 IS and DO IS USM Lenses
Lens hoods are primarily designed to prevent unwanted stray light from entering by extending and shading the end of the lens, ensuring no problems with vignetting or motor functions. Additionally, since the end of the lens is extended, you also get the added benefit of some extra protection from accidental impact. Lens hoods match the specific focal length of the lens it was designed for.
This lens hood fits the following Canon lenses:
- EF 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
- EF 70-300mm f4-5.6 IS USM
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars It’s a stupid piece of plastic, but…
Works as advertised. Adds protection to lens, also reduces sun glare. It also looks cool. It’s a lot larger in real life, however fits in reverse on my 70-300MM IS for easy storage. It’s an expensive piece of plastic, but amazon had the best price.
4 Stars Canon ET-65B Lens Hood
Does the job – lots of money for a piece of plastic though, it could not have cost that much to manufacture.
3 Stars Over priced
Does what it’s supposed to but way over priced. I was just cleaning out my old gear and looked at a Minolta lens hood, it’s metal (aluminum?) and light, it’s solid and probably costs less than 50% of what Canon’s asking for. And why does it have to be so big? I guess Canon is trying to make you feel better that you are getting a big lens hood for your money.
5 Stars Canon hood lens
The item was very nice but it didn’t fit so I had to sent it back, and everthing went very smooth.
3 Stars Are you Kidding me?
I bought this hood when it was at its lowest for around thirty dollars. Then I saw it rise to forty. Now It’s listed here for a hundred bucks. are you serious? Has the world gone nuts? its a lens hood made of plastic. I will say it works fine as a lens hood, but then again it isn’t that complicated. I say just get one of the replica ones unless you can find this for a much lower price somewhere.
Canon ET65III Lens Hood for Canon SLR Lens
A lens hood is one of the most important accessories for each lens you own. A lens hood provides multiple functions: it 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 it protects the front barrel from the inevitable impacts against walls, door frames, and other real-life obstacles.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Better than I expected
This hood is easy for me to use. With the hood attached on my 85/1.8 lens, I can easily get on or off the lens cap. It’s not that bad as someone put on their negative comments. I am a woman and my finger size is normal. It might be a different experience for someone with quite big hands.
4 Stars Does the job
There’s not much to say. The hood does its job. It’s easy to mount/unmount and can be mounted in reverse.
2 Stars Lousy Hood
Lousy hood. It is difficult to insert and remove. It does not stay on well. It, does the job when it comes to cutting out glare.
3 Stars Not that secure
The product works as advertised. But the design of the lens and the hood attachment is not the most secure. My other lens hoods screws on to the lens. This is attached through 4 prongs that attaches to a thin grove on the lens. With any force, the hood can pop out so may to serve to protect the lens when dropped.
5 Stars Very Happy
Great hood does what its supposed to do, cut flare and protect lense. It’s not a screw on, but latches fairly easy and is sturdy when latched on. Since it latches on it does spin around the lense, but its nothing to complain about, it still feels very sturdy when on. Overall very happy with the purchase.
Lens hoods are primarily designed to prevent unwanted stray light from entering by extending and shading the end of the lens, ensuring no problems with vignetting or motor functions. Additionally, since the end of the lens is extended, you also get the added benefit of some extra protection from accidental impact. Lens hoods match the specific focal length of the lens it was designed for.
This lens hood fits the following Canon lenses:
- EF-S 18 to 55mm f3.5-5.6
- EF 28 to 80mm f3.5-5.6 II
- EF 28 to 90mm f4-5.6 II USM
- EF 28 to 90mm f4-5.6 II
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Does not fit easily
This hood does not fit on the EF-S 18-55 mm lens easily. Sometimes I feel as though it might damage the lens. Once on the lens the camera looks nice. Due to the wide angle of the lens the hood is of little use technically. It would have been better if it was fitting easily on the lens.
5 Stars Canon EW-60C Lens Hood
Lens Hood Arrived Fast and packaged nicely. Hood works as described. I have only had the opportunity to use it for a couple of pictures so far.
5 Stars Perfect hood
I purchased this hood to use with my kit lens on my Canon Rebel XSi. It works great and stores perfectly (put on backwards). I highly recommend this hood.
4 Stars What, no hood?
“I know, let’s sell the lens hood separately. We can make killing on selling them separately and just think more wasteful packaging. I love it. Maybe we can even figure out a way to sell the glass as an accessory”.
3 Stars Expensive, Poor fit, disappointing
I had to replace a sigma 18-50mm when the auto focus broke – Annoying, but the lens had seen several years of hard use.I purchased a Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS SLR Lens to replace it. Since Canon does not ship a hood with their lenses I had to order this separately – If you can find another hood to fit this lens for less than $25USD, do it. Also I had a hard time fitting this hood to the lens. The hood has to be placed just so, and then you need use considerable force to seat the hood. In Canon’s defence I do have mild arthritis in my hands, but this was ridiculous.
Canon EW83E Lens Hood for EF 16 35mm f 2 8L or other UWA Canon SLR Lenses
Specially designed Lens Hood for the CANON 16-35 f/2.8L USM Lens & the CANON 17-40 f/4.0 L USM Lens (CAN 17-40MM/USM)
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Does what its supposed to!!!
First of all, this particular lens hood is “recommended” for several different lenses. I suspect that is why some people find that it is “visible” when looking through the viewfinder at widest angle settings, while others do not. I purchased this for the Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens (used on an EOS 50D) after reading lots of positive reviews. I am a firm believer in the philosophy of always shooting with a lens hood in order to add more protection to the front of the lens, as well as to protect against glare from peripheral light sources.
This hood fit the 10-22mm lens perfectly and is snug. It can be reversed and mounted on the lens for storage, just as with other Canon lens hoods. While it’s usable on several Canon lenses, its flower petal seems to be sized for the 10-22mm lens. I say this because if you experiment with a 1/8th inch tab projecting in to the viewing angle of the lens when set at 10mm, you’ll see the tab paint out a perfect rectangle in the viewfinder as you trace the petal contour. (i.e. the petal is JUST out of sight at 10mm)
The large 77mm front of this lens is hungry to capture stray light from any source, and this hood does a good job blocking some of that unwanted light. I noticed less glare on outdoor shots right away.
As claimed in other reviews, this lens hood does have a large diameter. It’s large petals (top and bottom) are 4.25″ diameter, while its small petals (left and right) are a whopping 4.75″ diameter. The 10-22mm lens is 3.25″ in diameter where the hood attaches. However, this “oversizing” of the hood is intentional and if you look at its molding, you can see that the designers took every possible opportunity to step and flare the petals outward, in order to allow projecting the petals farther in front of the lens (and blocking more peripheral light) without becoming a regular unwanted subject in your photo’s shot at 10mm.
This hood won’t fit in to any of my lens cases while attached to the lens. I’ll live with that for now, but will look to upsize a couple of my cases to remove the step of adding/removing this hood between shooting and lens storage. I don’t mind the extra step, but feel like the less one has to handle any lens, the less likely it will be to get dropped. For that reason, I always mount the lens first, and THEN the hood. Likewise in reverse, always remove the hood while the lens is on the camera, and then remove the lens and move it directly to its case.
I’d strongly recommend this lens hood for the EF-S 10-22mm lens. It’s cheap insurance and does a good job with reducing glare.
3 Stars I guess its a good lens hood
But I purchased it for my wide angle and I guess I’m not doing something right or the lens wouldn’t make a shadow on all of my pics. I just don’t think this lens should have a hood.
Otherwise, it’s like all of the rest of my hoods. Seems sturdy enough.
5 Stars I wish it had been included with the lens
A lens hood is essential. All of my Canon high-end lenses came with the hood packed in the box. The 10mm-22mm lens is a very fine quality lens and feels like one of the pro “L” lenses in construction and in image quality. It is also expensive enough to qualify, so why not include the lens hood?
Since it was not included however it is a necessary purchase.
5 Stars Extra, because 1 just isnt enough
I bought this for my L series because although buying the lense brand new and it comes with one alraedy, i’ve seen that the hood gets scratched.
So i bought another one, in times where i just want to be flashy, i can pull out the new hood and make it look good, haha.
And in case my hood breaks, i have a replacement.
3 Stars Lens hood for 10-22mm wide angle zoom
This is way overpriced for what it is and Canon is too cheap to include it with the lens– shame on them. It is just crazy to have to be “taxed” an additional $30+ on a $700 lens that should come with a lens hood. It works fine, it is just the price that is the issue. I’m kind of sorry I didn’t take the risk of buying a third party brand lens hood. The Canon hood is just made of plastic as is the third party brand (BTW I thought the third party brand was also overpriced at $15+). To me, this hood is worth maybe $10 but certainly no more than $12. Part of the reason I bought the Canon is that Amazon provided free shipping since it was over $25. The $15+ hood got bumped up to over $20 with the shipping. I would have tried the third party brand but there is no telling the quality of those plus the cost difference was to close with the shipping so I just decided to bite the bullet and pay up. It is wise to have the hood especially for bright days but the price is definitely a rip.
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