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Olympus starting to include lens hoods

Started Oct 28, 2015 | Discussions thread
Pikme Senior Member • Posts: 2,176
Re: Olympus isn't behind the times
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OzRay wrote:

Michael Meissner wrote:

OzRay wrote:

Every 4/3 lens that I've ever owned has come with a lens hood as standard.

Yes, but the micro 4/3rds lenses typically did not come with a hood until recently.

That's what I've found odd, considering what went before with 4/3 lenses.

They are either ahead of the times or just out of sync altogether. 

A few years back, Olympus included a hood (and usually a nice cloth or padded bag) with all the 4/3 lenses.  But both Nikon and Canon were beginning to ship their new kit/cheaper lenses without hoods.

Sony was even cheaper, shipping kit lenses even without caps.  Panasonic deemed their 4/3 lenses to be 'spare parts' and just stopped shipping lenses altogether.

So Olympus dropped hoods with the introduction of m4/3 lenses.  And about the same time, Nikon and Canon went back to including hoods with their kit lenses.  Short memories have decided that Olympus 'never' included hoods, while all other companies 'always' included hoods.

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