Canon 17-55 lens hood info

OK gang, I just made the leap to purchase a Canon 17-55 IS USM...wondering about the Canon lens hood...does anyone have one, and can provide max diameter measurement, as well as front-rear dimension? I was unpleasantly surprised in getting the hood for my Canon 10-22 and finding how ungainly that beast is to store. So I want to be better prepared emotionally for the 17-55 hood! (and to buy a Lowepro lens case that will fit it).

Dude...the lens hood isn't big. The LENS is. The lens hood for the 17-55 should reverse onto it just fine. EW-83J, I believe.

Hey, my 10-22mm is 3.3diam x 3.5"long, the 17-55mm is 3.3 diam x 4.4"long...that is not much of a difference! I still need to know the outside diameter of the hood to fit in the right Lowepro lens case, though!

Called Canon...they didn't know either! Anyone?

Just add 5mm on each side of the lens diameter. That'd do it.

In case someone else has the same question...

I went to the Google Newsgroups and got an answer, where (surprisingly) I could not get one on POTN!...4.25" outside diameter maximum

Hi outside diameter front is 108mm and the back nearest to lens is 100mm hope this helps and its 60 mm deep

This is one lens that should have a hood. It might be a great lens, but it's going to flare like crazy outdoors then, as shown by fstopjoe in his awesome comparisons.

Oh, now I think THAT is a little bit of an extreme statement. With over 4,000 images on my 17-55 in all kinds of light (yes, mostly with a hood, but not all), I have hardly seen any flaring, even when I have tried to make it do so.

So, stating that it will "flare like crazy" is a bit much unless you personally have experienced this crazy flaring.

Thanks for the detailed measurements!

I posted this link in another thread, and got laughed at, but it will get you a "real" idea of what it is like (size and image wise) before you actually buy a real one....

http://www.lenshoods.c​o.uk/canon.php

RedWingNut wrote:
I posted this link in another thread, and got laughed at, but it will get you a "real" idea of what it is like (size and image wise) before you actually buy a real one....

http://www.lenshoods.c​o.uk/canon.php

Thank you for this...one can save a lot of money, assuming one wants to shade the lens and not protect the front from an inadvertant finger or bashing!

The 17-40L lens hood works pretty well if any of you own both.

We have the 16-35 and 17-40 at work, so I just take home the 17-40 lens hood since if I'm away from work using the 17-55 then I'm definatly NOT using the 17-40 at work.

Makes you wonder about the real difference between the EW-83J for 17-55 and EW-83whatever for the 17-40, and why Canon bothers (apart from yet another opportunity to make money off us). I understand the FOV difference in APS-C vs. 35mm FF, but... [Shaking head]

I have both and they are reasonably different. The 17-55 hood has about twice the extension of the petals and the petals are at a notably smaller, tighter overall diameter , so it is doing quite a bit more shading than the 17-40 unit.. I can't quantify the extent of difference in performance but when you see them side by side they are clearly covering different geometries. Considering that some folks (but not I) claim the17-55 has significant flare issues, there would seem to be some merit in a deeper, tighter hood design. I'm sure the 17-40 unit is a help, just not as much coverage as the specific design for the lens.