When to use lens hood
Nov 20, 2014 22:38:34 #
Nov 20, 2014 22:48:59 #
tommyf wrote:
When are times that you use a lens hood on your 50mm lens? Thanks
Always would be a good time. Lens hood will reduce lens flare which generally show up in your images as low saturation and low contrast areas, sometimes very significant other times not as bad. But, since the proper hood does not interfere with the operation of the lens there is no reason not to have it on the lens at all times it is being used. The hood also protects the front of the lens from accidental impact when you are using your camera, I only ever did that once when I had my new macro lens mounted on my camera and was walking across a patio that was congested with furniture, man did I feel dumb.
Nov 20, 2014 22:49:00 #
tommyf wrote:
When are times that you use a lens hood on your 50mm lens? Thanks
Always would be a good time. Lens hood will reduce lens flare which generally show up in your images as low saturation and low contrast areas, sometimes very significant other times not as bad. But, since the proper hood does not interfere with the operation of the lens there is no reason not to have it on the lens at all times it is being used. The hood also protects the front of the lens from accidental impact when you are using your camera, I only ever did that once when I had my new macro lens mounted on my camera and was walking across a patio that was congested with furniture, man did I feel dumb.
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Nov 20, 2014 23:20:11 #
lighthouse
Loc: No Fixed Abode
tommyf wrote:
When are times that you use a lens hood on your 50mm lens? Thanks
8:17 am, 5:30pm & 11:55am
Nov 20, 2014 23:22:34 #
Nov 20, 2014 23:25:26 #
lighthouse wrote:
8:17 am, 5:30pm & 11:55am
So cool...you funny person ☺️
Nov 20, 2014 23:26:20 #
lighthouse
Loc: No Fixed Abode
Mogul wrote:
In what time zone?
All time zones, but I am not sure how it is affected by higher latitude shots.
Nov 20, 2014 23:27:49 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
tommyf wrote:
When are times that you use a lens hood on your 50mm lens? Thanks
My answer is always with one special note. If there is a chance that sunlight or a very bright light source will fall on the front lense element or filter, a lense shade is needed to prevent lense flare. One can shoot without a lense shade as long as the sun/bright light source does not hit the front glass. So if you start without a lense shade pointed away from the sun, Murphy's Law predicts that the picture will then move to the side or into the sun. Needless to say, one is screwed at that point without a shade. There are times that Murphy's Law predicts that the best picture will be so close to the sun/bright light source as to always allow light on the lense no matter how big or good the lense shade is.
Nov 21, 2014 00:08:33 #
Definitely those times when you find yourself using one hand to block the sunlight while simultaneously using the other hand to operate the camera.
Nov 21, 2014 04:23:13 #
tommyf wrote:
When are times that you use a lens hood on your 50mm lens? Thanks
100% of the time.
Since I don't use lens caps my hood is on 100% of the time. (and I don't actually have a 50mm...it's a 35mm and it doesn't come off of my camera :) )
Basically my thought is...all of the time...I don't want to have to screw around trying to put the hood on when I'm about to take an image or whatever.
Nov 21, 2014 04:38:02 #
tommyf wrote:
When are times that you use a lens hood on your 50mm lens? Thanks
Always except when you are using a popup flash and it might cast a shadow (you should never use a popup flash, however).
Nov 21, 2014 05:54:03 #
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