Lens Hoods

The only time I take my hoods off is to use a CPL filter, which I don't do very often. If my lens comes with a hood, I use that. If not, I get a $4 one from Amazon.com or some such place. Ok, now can I say that a 10-22 looks stupid with a hood on it. But, I use it anyway.

MalVeauX wrote in post #16882001
Nearly every time. The only time I don't, is when I'm stacking plate filters on my ultrawide.

I use the factory hood if it came with one.
If not, I buy a much less expensive 3rd party hood.
It's the best protection for your front element.
And it helps control flare/glare.

Very best,

^x2

I shoot outside most of the time so I always use the factory hoods. Plus the keep dogs noses off the lens when I shoot dog photos.

Always use the stock Canon hoods
They protect the front elements of the lens from mechanical damage (impact, fingerprints and rain)

Yes, always. Canon hoods. And never use filter...............

I hardly ever used hoods because I swap primes often and mounting and unmounting and reversing the hoods is a pain, also not easy to hold a lens with a hood mounted backwards.
I do use ND filters on my 24L II and 50L that cuts down on the light in sunny conditions, as a hood would do.
I am extremely careful with my gear, and often rest my hand on the bottom-outer barrel of my lenses/camera, with the camera strap around my neck while walking around.

I always use hoods - some OEM, some aftermarket - although I also use protective filters (but never mention the latter on POTN...)

agedbriar wrote in post #16882734
..... (but never mention the latter on POTN...)

Well, almost never! LOL!!!

Always. Painted the one on my 100-400L white. Looks awesome.

(Not trying to turn this into a painted/nonpainted thread. )

Always use the Canon hood that came with the lens ( I only have L's )

Only exception is my new EF 17-40mm f4L. I use the Canon EW-83J hood from my now sold EF-S 17-55mm f2.8 IS , it's much deeper but still does not cause vignetting on a 1.3 crop.

Use a hood for everything except Macro at 1:1 or greater.

InfiniteDivide wrote in post #16882665
I do use ND filters on my 24L II and 50L that cuts down on the light in sunny conditions, as a hood would do.

Sorry, but what the ND filter does with light and what the hood does with light are two very different things.

The hood will not cut down on the light like an ND filter. Exposure does not change at all simply because you put the hood on, there is just as much light getting down the barrel of the lens. The ND filter is there to cut down the light reaching the sensor and so does stop light from getting down the barrel and thus changes the exposure requirement.

The hood is there to block stray light from outside the field of view glancing across the front element and causing loss of contrast and possibly flare. The ND filter will not stop that happening as it simply reduces the light entering the lens overall. Whilst that does mean that the effects of flare are cut down in intensity, that is compensated for by the increased exposure time. They will still be the same strength, relatively speaking, to the light from the scene. The ND filter won't reduce the problem at all (and a cheap filter could add to it).

Sometimes I use hoods, but some of my lenses don´t have hoods - and I don´t want to buy that many hoods. So I use a hand instead to block direct sunlight hitting the lens.

I use the lens hoods that come with my camera. Mostly as an added layer of protection.

ALWAYS! I use them as protection and hell they did a good job on that one. I remember a thousand times where i knocked the front of my lens on a wall or similiar and was too happy that i had a lenshood which damped the impact.

To me its the best thing for protection. Look at it like a bumper for a car.