DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Olympus starting to include lens hoods

Started Oct 28, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP Henry Richardson Forum Pro • Posts: 21,959
Zooms and telephoto primes usually include lens hoods
1

Henry Richardson wrote:

Here is a list of my m4/3 lenses that I have bought since April 2012 in the order I bought them:

2012 Panasonic 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 (original) lens hood, center squeeze cap

2012 Panasonic 45-200mm f4-5.6 lens hood, center squeeze cap

2012 Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6

2012 Olympus 9-18mm f4-5.6

2012 Panasonic 14mm f2.5

2012 Panasonic 20mm f1.7

2014 Olympus 9mm f8 fisheye bodycap

2014 Olympus 25mm f1.8 lens hood

2015 Olympus 45mm f1.8

2015 Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II lens hood, center squeeze cap

Thinking back about all the lenses I have bought from many companies going back to the early 1970s my recollection is that all the zoom lenses included a lens hood and the telephoto primes included one too. Primes in the normal and wide angle range did not include a lens hood though. So from my list above these are the lenses that were out of the ordinary and surprising for not including one:

2012 Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6

2012 Olympus 9-18mm f4-5.6

2015 Olympus 45mm f1.8

I bought cheap ones on ebay for those 3 lenses and the quality of the cheap China lens hoods are fully up to the quality of the ones provided by the manufacturers.  Maybe even made in the same factories.

-- hide signature --

Henry Richardson
http://www.bakubo.com

Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow