In a message dated 4/19/02 1:07:35 PM Central Daylight Time,
skipwilliamsom@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> What strikes me as unusual are
> the two hoods. They both apparantly bayonet onto the lens. But one has
> hood leaves on the INSIDE. Am I seeing that right? I guess it's
effective
> for shading the front element, as well as not vignetting. It also keeps
the
> overall lens depth down. But it sure does look strange.
It looks like it's made on the same principle as the hood on the new Nikon
45/2.8 that they introduced along with the FM3A. That one is pictured on the
cover and inside the March issue of Pop Photo.
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