Whenever you buy a new camera lens, you’ll often receive a free lens hood included with your purchase. And while many photographers leave it on without thinking twice about what it does, this handy tool isn’t just for show.
Canon has partnered with a family of artisans who specialize in a specific type of lacquered woodwork to produce a limited run of tablewear inspired by its lens hoods.
The camera accessory company KUVRD has announced its new Universal Lens Hood. It's a collapsible lens hood that's designed to fit 99% of lenses on the market.
While photographing a Ontario Reign hockey game in the American Hockey League this past weekend, a sports photographer accidentally …
Use multiple telephoto lenses out in the field but don't want to carry around multiple lens hoods? Earlier this year, LensCoat unveiled a new product that's designed to solve that need. It's called the TravelHood, and is a lightweight and flexible lens hood that can wrap around the end of any lens.
Want to give your plain-looking camera a dash of color? Kapsones can help you do that. It's a new line of custom lens hoods -- the company describes them as "jewelry for your camera" -- that launched recently over in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Sick and tired of your white Canon L lens clashing with your black lens hood? No? Oh well, Vello's new line of lens hoods probably isn't meant for you. The maker of 3rd party Canon lens hoods has launched three new lens hoods that come in white to match the color of Canon's high-end telephoto lenses.
Nikon has released some pretty interesting patents in the past. As recently as October of this last year we saw a patent for a camera attachment that blows air into the tripod mount to keep your sensor cool. Just days before that another patent showed that the company might be building features specific to "camera toss" photography into its compact and mirrorless cameras.
Nikon's most recent patent isn't quite as out there, but still unique as far as we can tell -- it's a dual lens hood.
Lens hoods and protective cases are nice accessories to have, but they're generally only bundled with professional L glass when it comes to Canon lenses. Canon USA almost never includes them with lenses that don't carry that distinctive red ring (or a green ring). Last week, Bryan Carnathan over at The Digital Picture recently noticed that the pre-order pages for the new Canon 35mm f/2 IS over on B&H and Adorama listed a hood and case as part of what's included. The news surely got many a Canonite wondering, "will bundled hoods and cases be included with non-L lenses now?"
Unfortunately, the answer is no -- at least for photographers in the US.
Lens caps are often cast aside in favor of lens hoods, but what if you could have both in one accessory? That's what the Hoocap does. It's not as fancy as the blooming lens hood concept we featured a year ago, but it seems pretty well thought out. Extend the cap/hood out from your camera, and the two "curtains" open up, allowing the camera to "see" and blocking errant light from causing flares. Close it, twist it, and push it into your lens, and it locks into its closed position for protecting your glass.
Lens hoods can become loose over time, leading to annoying rattling sounds or problematic vignetting if the …
We've shared a lens cap and hood hybrid here before, but this one is much nicer. "Flower", dreamt up by designers Rhie Hyi Joong and Lee Sang Hwa, is a concept lens cap that blooms into a hood by simply turning a ring.
Lens hoods are ridiculously expensive considering the fact that they're simply fancy plastic tubes. If you'd like to use a lens hood but don't feel like shelling out wads of cash, you can create your own cardboard lens hoods!