An EXPENSIVE Lens Hood...

TheHoff wrote in post #6380787
That is a typo, but here is a hood that is actually $840 in the Canon e-store

http://estore.usa.cano​n.com …=12114&top_cate​gory=12086

LOL That's not a hood, it's a freaking BUCKET (with an incredably large hole in the bottom!)

HAHAHA, it's crazy that that lens hood, costs more than some good lenses (100mm, 70-200 f4L, to name a few.)

wow

Free: http://www.lenshoods.c​o.uk/

Though it looks a bit silly :P

For a savings of $840, it could look Damned silly.

Cut one out of sheet plastic and make a semi-permanent hood. You can get plastic in any color you want, and your local craft store has flocking for the inside.

mellowd wrote in post #6384449
Free: http://www.lenshoods.c​o.uk/

Though it looks a bit silly :P

not to mention it doesn't offer the protection that a metal hood does!

mellowd wrote in post #6384449
Free: http://www.lenshoods.c​o.uk/

Though it looks a bit silly :P

Now that has sex appeal!

DozerLYP wrote in post #6383692
$840 for an out of focus hood, that's crazy.

Probably lots of people with L fever that buys it

PiRho wrote in post #6384586
not to mention it doesn't offer the protection that a metal hood does!

Actually its carbon fiber.

i think that's really rude, to charge so much for a simple piece of cast material with basically no durability-or-performance-related function except for its shape...

how can it be 20x as hard or expensive to make as a 17-55 f/2.8 hood, for example? and even that is massively overpriced for what it is...

somethingsimple wrote in post #6393006
i think that's really rude, to charge so much for a simple piece of cast material with basically no durability-or-performance-related function except for its shape...

how can it be 20x as hard or expensive to make as a 17-55 f/2.8 hood, for example? and even that is massively overpriced for what it is...

#1. its carbon fiber
#2. if you don't loose/break it you will never need one
#3. its for a $8,000 lens and the size of a small bucket.

AND, it's only $588.95 at B&H! A savings of $251.05!

That gave me a laugh..

Billginthekeys wrote in post #6393692
#1. its carbon fiber
#2. if you don't loose/break it you will never need one
#3. its for a $8,000 lens and the size of a small bucket.

well if i had a $100,000 car i wouldn't expect the sun visors to cost 10% of that! carbon fibre or gold plated, i still think its a ripoff.

...and the other day, i bought a BUCKET that was the size of a bucket for $.99c

Again, you don't have to buy it, it comes with it for crying out loud, and its not like they have a ton of them laying around. These lenses are not exactly mass produced, and so the stock of a part that 90%+ of users will NEVER need to buy probably isn't going to be very big, ergo the price is high.

For instance, I have had a 300 2.8 for over two years now, the amount of times I have had to buy a new hood? 0. The amount of times I think I will ever need to buy a new hood? 0. Therefore barring very unusual circumstances, I will have to spend $0 more on a new hood for as long as I own the lens.

As I said, these things are built to take abuse, and have a large rubber ring around the end which could take any small bumps or impacts with no effort. In order to break that hood you would have to do so much damage that you probably would risk breaking the lens itself aswell. The only other way to need to have to buy a need hood would be to loose it, which seeing as it bolts on to the lens with a thumb screw, could pretty much not happen.

20droger wrote in post #6380732
I know Canon's replacement hoods for L lenses are expensive, but really now!

http://www.usa.canon.c​om …17623#SNAModelS​uppliesAct

Think it just might be a typo?

The purpose of a lens hood is to keep stray light from entering the elements and causing lens flare. Stray light can also decrease contrast in an image.

The purpose of $1000+ "Super Hoods" is to bend extraneous light around your camera; preventing lens flare and contrast fogging. This bent light then collapses on the Nikon shooting hack standing next to you; totally ruining his shot. It's been known to even crack the lens hoods of Nikon cameras in bright sunlight.