Camera lens hoods in photography might seem a simple thing, but they can be very confusing for the beginner photographer. Do you need one? What lens hood should you buy for your lens? What are lens hoods for? Why use a lens hood? When do you use one? These are just some of the questions we get asked.
The main reason you use a lens hood is to stop stray light coming onto your lens which can create lens flare and give your images less contrast. This normally happens when shooting into the sun or when you have a strong light source in front of the lens. Taken without a lens hood. Gives a washed-out look and shows lens flare. The circles you see is the light reflecting off the glass elements within the lens.
Taken using the camera lens hood. It quite simply blocks light from going over the front element of your lens. Below is a simple image of the same thing in the same place. One with a lens hood on the camera, and one without it. The lens hood is creating a shadow over the front element of the lens thus blocking the light from hitting it. In this case, you are likely to get lens flare. This will give your pictures a stronger contrast of colours and tones and to stop lens flare.
You should have a lens hood on all the time. Another bonus in using a lens hood is that it will protect the front of your lens. Much cheaper to replace than a lens! Another tip here is to always keep your lens clean as this will increase contrast and avoid lens flare too.
There are times when you might not want to use a lens hood. The shape of a petal lens hood allows it to extend as far as possible beyond the lens without showing up in the frame. The only thing worse than getting a lens hood in the picture is when you hand your point and shoot to Uncle Harry, who puts his finger right over the lens when he takes a picture… Ugh!
Prime lenses have round lens hoods more often than zooms because they don't have the added difficulty of keeping out of the way as the camera zooms out. While shooting without a lens hood can still produce great pictures most of the time, if any light happens to bounce into the lens from the sides, the contrast and color in the image are significantly reduced.
The reason is that the plastic on the lens already extends behind the glass of the lens, so the glass is recessed. There is nothing wrong with using a lens hood on such a lens, but it is hardly necessary for most situations.
Canon generally provides a lens hood for the L series professional lenses, but not for the consumer level lenses. For those lenses, you'll need to head on over to Amazon and buy one for a really affordable price. If you are either really cheap or just love doing things yourself, you can actually make a lens hood by going to this website and following the directions.
You mention that the plastic on the 50mm prime lens already extends past the glass, but what about when using filters? Jim, what are the benefits between the petal hoods and the round lense hoods? Are there situations where one is more beneficial than the other? Bob — The filter screws on to the fittings of the front element of the lens. The lens hood extends far beyond the filter.
Yes, the filter and lens hood can be used simultaneously. Caitlin — petal lens hoods are generally better because they allow the lens hood to be longer and block more direct light without parts of the lens hood showing up in the corner of the frame. I just want to ask, what if my 58mm lens hood is seen on the photographs when I turn my zoom lens in 18mm wide, is there a much wider opening lens hood for that 58mm lens?
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