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Others | Home » » » Opteka 58mm Screw Mount Flower / Petal Shaped Lens Hood with Lock | | | | | | | Description: | | This lens hood shades the lens from stray light, improving your contrast and image quality. In inclement weather, it can assist in keeping moisture or wind-blown debris off the lens, and protects the front barrel from the inevitable impacts against walls, door frames, and other real-life obstacles. | | | Features: | |
• Petal-shaped lens hood
• Deflects oblique light angles that often cause flare effects
• Helps protect front of the lens scratches and dings while shooting
• Petal shape avoids vignetting that can occur round lens hoods
• Screws into the front of your existing lens.
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17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Spend the money for the Canon oneJan 19, 2009
By Demon_Mustang
I'm sure some people are satisfied with this lens hood, but personally, I think you should spend the extra money and get the real Canon one that attaches via the quick release notches instead of screwing into the front of the lens or lens filter. With this one, it's kind of a pain to put on and take off since the threads on the lens or filter are very fine and you can't rush it or you might mess up the threading. I'm also not too impressed with the cheap feeling plastic material it is made out of.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
bad quality thingMay 21, 2009
By Hui Liu
"HL"
Although the price is low, the quality is pretty bad. The edge is not smooth even. When screwing onto the lens, it's too tight to adjust to a perfect position, also the black color can fade and make the lens thread very dirty. Pay some more and get the real canon one or just save this 10 bucks.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Don't waste your moneySep 18, 2009
By R. Glenn
"rjgjr"
I 'm as much at fault for purchasing this lens hood as the manufacturer is for selling it. It's a cheap knockoff of the Canon slip notch lens hood. Spend the extra cash on the Canon. Don't bother kidding yourself and spending the money on the Opteka. I even read the reviews and thought, it can't be that bad and the price was great!. You get what you pay for. On the three Canon lenses I have, I can only screw this cover on about 1/8 of the way, and 9/10 it's on cross threaded. I'm afraid of damaging the threads on my lens. It's not worth the cost of shipping to return it so it will collect dust in a corner somewhere until it gets tossed out with the trash. Think quality and longevity, not price!!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
CheapSep 05, 2009
By N. Jensen
It's a cheap lens hood. I should have spent more to get one that works better. Using it with the 18-55mm kit lens + UV filter on my Canon XSi, the lens is visible while zoomed out to ~18-22mm. Past 22mm it's not visible, but it's annoying to not have the entire field of view that the lens affords me. The threads are cheap and it screws on pretty roughly, such that I am worried about damaging the threads on my UV filter. The plastic is cheap. The adjustment ring, while it's nice that it's there, is cheap. It does the job, but it's annoying. Do yourself a favor and buy a nicer hood.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Lens hoodAug 15, 2009
By Bruce Colvil
This lens hood was not easy to mount on the lens and because it's plastic the screw threads could be damaged.
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