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I would rather not use the bulky / plastic hood that comes with the Fuji 16 mm lens. Need to have room in my bag.

Can someone suggest a metal, preferably vented, screw on lens hood that won't vignette on the 16mm? I've heard some of those ones found oneBay will vignette....

Has anyone tried to step up from 67mm to 72mm hood to avoid vignetting?

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Jim
 
I'm no materials expert, but I think that with metal to metal contact that eventally you'll start seeing the black coating on the lens wear away. Also, metal has less give than plastic which means that if there's a sudden impact to a metal lens hood, it gets transmitted to the lens/camera body. A plastic lens hood would deform/break and absorb a lot of the shock.
 
Of course aftermarket hoods are not designed for the lens like the one that came with it. If you don't think Fuji knows how to design a lens hood, why would you buy a camera from them?

The lens hood that came with your lens is not big despite what you say. It is for a 16mm lens after all. It is reversible so it takes up no room at all. Most of us know how to reverse the hood. Get help if that is the problem. Someone will explain it to you. I hope that the camera is not just a fashion accessory so that one can't have anything as gauche as a plastic lens hood especially with the extra engineering required of a tulip design.
 
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I doubt you'll find a bayoneting hood, but search ebay for a 67mm, the filter size, lens hood.

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win39 said:
Of course aftermarket hoods are not designed for the lens like the one that came with it. If you don't think Fuji knows how to design a lens hood, why would you buy a camera from them?

The lens hood that came with your lens is not big despite what you say. It is for a 16mm lens after all. It is reversible so it takes up no room at all. Most of us know how to reverse the hood. Get help if that is the problem. Someone will explain it to you. I hope that the camera is not just a fashion accessory so that one can't have anything as gauche as a plastic lens hood especially with the extra engineering required of a tulip design.
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Your statement wreaks of arrogance and ignorance only a little person with strong self-pity can posses.

A serious troll that you are.
 
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win39 said:
Of course aftermarket hoods are not designed for the lens like the one that came with it. If you don't think Fuji knows how to design a lens hood, why would you buy a camera from them?

The lens hood that came with your lens is not big despite what you say. It is for a 16mm lens after all. It is reversible so it takes up no room at all. Most of us know how to reverse the hood. Get help if that is the problem. Someone will explain it to you. I hope that the camera is not just a fashion accessory so that one can't have anything as gauche as a plastic lens hood especially with the extra engineering required of a tulip design.
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I have to disagree 100%. You are making an assumption based on nothing but blind trust.

The hood made for the 14mm and for the 16mm is also the hood for the 18-55 - zero efficiency of design - there is no argument to that.

The ridiculously huge lens hoods for the 60mm, 90mm and 55-200mm are all designed not for their efficiency in reducing flare but so as to reverse fit over the lens for storage - how can the two possibly be related.

The hood for the 18mm is also the hood for the 35mm and as it happens is actually the most efficient hood for the 60mm f2.4. One pro has detailed his efforts to improve the efficiency of the 60mm Fuji hood by making a baffle to fit inside the barrel and over the front of the hood leaving just a rectangular opening. He hadn't thought to try the rectangular hood of the 35mm which, because the 60mm lens is deeply set within the barrel, benefits from a short but narrow hood rather than a huge, long and extremely wide hood.

Do not mistake space saving hoods for efficient flare-reducing, impact withstanding hoods. Reverse fitting and good flare resistance are very rarely an effective combination.

The advantage of using 3rd party plastic hoods rather than metal is less damage and less noise when they are packed in a bag and either clinking against one another or against the lens and thus scratching them but I still prefer, and mostly use 3rd party metal lens hoods which are either kept fitted or separated in their own small compartment.
 
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