EF-s 10-22 flaring: hood needed?

To all those 10-22 owners/users out there... do many people own or feel they need to own and use the hood?

I have read that flare is quite well controlled on this lens and am wondering if I can get by without buying the hood.

Cheers

I have the hood but don't use it as much as I should, more for lens protection than flare control. The lens really controls flare well w/out it.

I've used it in several situations that the hood helped out but the lens does control it well.

I own the hood and use it all the time as a habit but I honestly never try it without.

Hoods for wide angles are not that effective in controlling flares. For telephotos, perhaps so. A hand or a hat to shade the lens is much more effective than a hood on an ultrawide for flare control.

Sorry, what? 10mm ... hood? Abstract photography or crappy product shoots of the hood itself?

In my experience your 'hood' with anything less than 16mm on a 1.6 body is just being aware of your light sources. As for protection ... gah, paranoia takes care of that. I spend a good deal of thought regarding how to end up NOT touching the front element on my 10-22 and 8mm. They're like curb feelers.

not really.

Dont forget it makes the lens look cooler

I never bought a hood for mine. I doubt it would really help as a flare reducer as it has to be so wide to avoid vignetting at 10mm.

I use this lens a lot for landscapes and often have Lee filters on the front - either a combination of one filter and the Lee circular polariser or two filters in the Lee universal bellows hood. This hood may help a little but it has to be fully retracted at 10mm. The key thing to avoid flare if shooting towards the sun is to shade the lens or front filter with a hat or card. Just make sure it isn't in the shot!

I always use the hood with mine although like most zoom hoods it will only be effective at the wide end. BTW the hood is the same one that comes with the 17-40 and 16-35. The lens does seem well controlled for flare, the only time I have seen it is if the disk of the sun is in the corner of the frame.

My 2 cents. Damn, get a hood for every lens you own. It protects, lifts and separates...whoops wrong forum. Actually It protects and increases contrast.

Never used one on my 10-22 (I do on other lenses I owned) - Even when there is a strong sun.

It would protect though as stated above by Dante.

I have a hood for every lens I own. For the 10-22, the hood is so darn large in diameter that it is more a nuisance to bring and mount and then remove to drop the lens into its compartment! So I use it a lot without the hood I bought for it, and have shot numerous photos into the sun...as others have said, the lens is quite well behaved even without the hood.

I strongly recommend using a lens hood all the time. It's true that the hood for the 10-22 is designed for the shortest focal length, but it is still useful.

If flare is your main worry, make sure that you do not use a filter on the lens if there is any bright light source in front of the lens, including bright reflections off the subject. If all the light sources are behind you, then a high quality multicoated filter will not be likely to affect the image.

cataclysmcow wrote in post #2005919
Sorry, what? 10mm ... hood? Abstract photography or crappy product shoots of the hood itself?

In my experience your 'hood' with anything less than 16mm on a 1.6 body is just being aware of your light sources. As for protection ... gah, paranoia takes care of that. I spend a good deal of thought regarding how to end up NOT touching the front element on my 10-22 and 8mm. They're like curb feelers.

If you've dealt with Olympus 24mm Perspective Control lens (I have one) the 10-22 is a walk in the park, compared to the paranoia experienced with the Olympus!