HENRY'S CANCELLING ORDERS on 45mm f/1.8 (purchased at $199 sale price)

atarget wrote:

I only use metal screw - on hoods. On all of my glass. I don't believe in plastic or rubber.

Maybe you don't believe in Samsung lenses then?  I'm not a fan of plastic either, and wished more lenses were still made of all metal parts.

Just get yourself UV filter. Even the cheapest ones come with metal ring. Or if you don't routinely protect your glass with them ( I do and always will) just get yourself a metal step-up ring, keep it on permanently and buy metal hood with tread size to match step - up ring.

I always recommend Fotga modular metal screw-on lens hood system. By the way, their ND vario filters are of great quality, too.

I own a nice metal hood, but I choose not to use it on Samsung lenses, because I don't want something stronger and more rigid than the lens, on the end of it where an accidental impact could happen.  Putting a metal UV filter on there only makes an impact's leverage that will act on the lens a bit longer, and will only (slightly) worsen the problem.

I find that the rubber hoods are nice for a couple of reasons: first, they have 3 positions: completely retracted for stowing in your camera bag (protruding less than my metal hood), half out for the wide-angle end of a zoom (which is about equivalent to the metal hoods), and full out (which provides better sun protection than most other hoods).  second, they cushion the impact energy that metal parts would send straight through to the lens.  In fact, I have gained so much confidence with my rubber lens hoods, that I've found myself hardly ever using the UV filters anymore (which have their own set of advantages AND disadvantages, but I don't think it's productive to get into a debate about that).

I am curious to learn more about this modular lens hood system that you mention.