I agree that rectangular lens hoods are best; but they're problematic.
They have to mount in one of the following ways:
1. Bayonet (i.e., zoom petal hoods)
2. Slide-on with an orientation notch (i.e., Leica wide-angle hoods)
3. Thread-on with adjustment for orientation (i.e., new Voigtlander hoods)
Olympus never decided to do anything but a clamp-on or screw-on, except for
the 35-80/2.8.
Skip
Original Message:
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From: Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 17:20:20 -0400
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Info/WTB Lens hood for the 35-70mm f3.5-4.5
On Monday, September 16, 2002 at 12:46, Jim Brokaw
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] Info/WTB Lens hood for the" saying:
> I've noticed that Olympus sometimes uses a hood for more than one focal
> length... This means that at some focal lengths we aren't getting all
> the shielding we should.
Not necessarily. The only things that count are the width at the end and
the distance from the film. Different lenses have different distances, film
plane to hood thread. But I agree, rectangular to match the film frame is
best.
tOM
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