Hood for Canon M32/1.4 lens

AbuMahendra wrote:

Thanks, Marco. My MO is to attach the hood and leave it on indefinitely, permanently with the lens never seeing the lens cap ever again. That's how the lens goes in the drawer, that's how the lens goes in the bag, that's how the lens sees active duty. Fit once and forget.

With this lens and also the EF-M 11-22mm lens, I keep the lens hood on for front-end protection all the time. I haven't removed the lens hood since September 2018 - with the exception of three evenings where I needed to fit an oversized NiSi Night Filter for Astrophotography.
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I usually bag it with the hood on and it sits on my shelf with the hood attached. I currently have the camera + lens sitting lens-pointing-down on my desk next to me because this EW-60F hood allows it to be used as a stand with decent stability. If sitting in my cabinet/display, I usually put the lens cap on because of the risk of stray sunlight on an unprotected sensor (the usual mirrorless concern).
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You've been a member of this forum for some time so I know you'll already be familiar with some of the things I'm mentioning here ...and some of these things you'd know from your own experiences with EF-M lenses. 
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I'm sure all cars have different cup holders but I often park my camera in mine... and the width of this lens hood is just the right diameter to make a fairly snug fit when travelling. I have a couple of images I just remembered - that better show the diameter of the lens hood (EW-60F) on the EF-M 32mm lens...  If you don't intend to use a lens cap but are intent to put it into camera bags etc, it's probably worth protecting your lens coatings with a filter.  It shares the same 43mm filters as several other EF-M lenses (22mm, 28mm) - as you would be aware by now.  It makes it easy to share and swap filters between the different lenses if you only use one set.
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This was a little more expensive than the other EF-M lenses... so I keep a high quality HOYA 43mm 'Fusion' UV filter on it at all times to ensure protection from dust on the front end, to protect against splashes when shooting food etc and because it's easier to wipe fingerprints from it (which amusingly happened on the second day of use when I was handling the lens whilst eating a tuna sandwich. This HOYA filter (known as "FUSION" or "EVO" series, depending on the country sold) gives me 99.8% light transmission... so it makes an ideal protector with no soft or hard vignetting, even if double-stacked with a C-PL filter on the front.  But there's been feedback on this group that showed some filters from B&W were problematic only on this lens.  Looking into how this could be possible, it seemed that the die used to cut templates in China may not have been correctly calibrated and this die was used by multiple manufacturers.  No idea if you do or don't use filters but it might be worth digging up that thread to check and see which brands were problematic.
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EOS M6 + Canon EW-60F lens hood - parked in my car's drink holder.

EOS M6 + Canon EW-60F lens hood + C-PL filter

EOS M6 + Canon EW-60F lens hood + C-PL filter

EOS M6 + Canon EW-60F lens hood + C-PL filter

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JRET wrote:

KEG wrote:

Required a bit of a push but fits.

Get a cheap one for the 32 & avoid mixing hoods between lenses. I’m guessing that the “tight” hood will eventually stretch to better fit the 32 and be too loose for the “correct” lens.

Given the extreme cost of shipping to Iceland, the cheap option is actually getting another EW-60F for my 18-150.

KEG wrote:

JRET wrote:

KEG wrote:

Required a bit of a push but fits.

Get a cheap one for the 32 & avoid mixing hoods between lenses. I’m guessing that the “tight” hood will eventually stretch to better fit the 32 and be too loose for the “correct” lens.

Given the extreme cost of shipping to Iceland, the cheap option is actually getting another EW-60F for my 18-150.

Ups, this is kinda sad!

AbuMahendra wrote:

Can anyone recommend an affordable, third-party hood for the M32/1.4 lens? Also, what other M lens hood, if any, fits also the M32/1.4 lens?

I use the original Canon hood on mine just due to the fact that it provides more protection than the under-sized petal type hoods. Interestingly enough, some of the photos provided illustrate the increased exposure/vulnerability that an under-sized hood leaves the lens open to. A small hood is better than nothing though, and can definitely be more practical (as has been mentioned)!

One thing I miss with today’s hoods is the nice flocking that further minimizes light reflection (increases color and contrast). I bought some thin black stick-on flocking that I might try out (doesn’t shed). Its reflectivity is much lower than the ribbing inside the bare plastic (and metal) hoods.

I have several “holster” style bags of different sizes, so I just choose the appropriate sized bag for the combo I’m using (I keep my hoods in shooting position too, ready to roll). The M’s are so nice and compact that even with the 18-150 or Siggy 16 mounted, they fit in very small bags (and with the other lenses in even smaller). Compare those to the size bags I need to fit my R equipment in, and it becomes so obvious which is the funner system!

Note: I only use “protection” type filters when in harsh environments. I also have a large number of hoods (a box-ful) with hoods of different styles and applications, up to the large-diameter floppy kind for shooting through glass. Accessories companies must LOVE photographers!

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