Why do they do this???
Jul 21, 2019 15:53:29 #
nikonbug wrote:
br Hi Grandpaw. What I see missing from this thre... (show quote)
I do exactly that .... more than "exactly that" in that I know
more ways to test need-or-not of the hood, on a zoom, than
you can likely invent in a month of Sundays. Approximately
half the lenses I've checked benefit, at least in some certain
specific situation, from their hood. The other half show zero
need, image-wise, of their hood. Admittedly, the hood is still
useful as a bumper and in rain or snow, but some lenses get
no other benefit from using their matching hood in any way
whatsoever. None. Zilcho.
Jul 21, 2019 16:12:27 #
Jul 21, 2019 16:31:34 #
charlienow wrote:
Maybe it’s like wearing your baseball cap backwards.
Keeps the sun off the lens, or at least a portion of it.
Jul 21, 2019 16:33:52 #
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Jul 21, 2019 16:47:11 #
fehutch wrote:
A quality photograph so much more meaningful than some photoshopped scenic that folks spend so much $$$ producing. I owned a IIIc along the way. Great camera. I still miss my M2. Thank you.
...please use the "quote reply" button so we know what/who/which you are referring to!
Jul 21, 2019 16:49:10 #
digit-up wrote:
I find it IRONIC that so many critics of me and an... (show quote)
My God. You are one sad person. You are filled with hate.
Jul 21, 2019 17:30:44 #
Just like the guy wearing a baseball cap with the visor turned to the back who complained about the sun in his eyes -- until someone told him to turn it around.
Jul 21, 2019 17:40:57 #
Real photographers take great photos. Period. Lens hood, no lens hood, ball cap to block the sun or a complex sun shade, with a camera strap or without, manual focus or full auto, digital or film ..... It is overcoming the technical challenge during a particular shoot and composing a compelling image to tell a story - even with a reversed lens hood!
Jul 21, 2019 17:52:44 #
Jul 21, 2019 18:32:48 #
bpayne01
Loc: Port Huron, Michigan
grandpaw wrote:
The first time they hit the front element on something I believe they might just rethink not having it on correctly. I find that on some of my lenses that it is just in the way of the zoom ring. I could see maybe forgetting it and not turning it around but I am seeing too many of them doing this and cannot see the logic in it.
I'm with you - I'm not a big fan of filters (unless I specifically need it for some modification to an image), but I use the lens hood as an inexpensive piece of plastic to protect my lens against a bump/bash/smack from the front!
Jul 21, 2019 18:35:19 #
mflowe
Loc: Port Deposit, MD
grandpaw wrote:
I watch a ton of photography videos and a lot of them shoot with the sun shade in the storage or reverse position. For the life of me I can't understand any scenario where this would be the way to go. Besides not blocking the sun or help protecting the front lens it just gets in the way. What am I missing here.
Because a lens hood is not needed 99.9% of the time. The only time I ever use it is in the rain. Storing it backwards on the lens is a convenient place to keep it if needed. I take it you never use filters. And I never believed in this myth of a lens gremlin just waiting around to scratch my front element. Been photographing 30 years and never hit the front of my lens on anything.
Jul 21, 2019 19:01:04 #
SteveHmeyer wrote:
Real photographers take great photos.
Period. ........
Real photographers take great photos.
Period. ........
"Period" ?
........ ROTFLMFAO !
In your dreams maybe.
In reality, most REAL photographers take mostly
routine images of whatever stuff they are paid to
photograph. They do this reliably, on time and at
reasonable cost. Considerable creative effort may
be needed to reliably produce, in the real working
conditions, some rather routine, non-glamorous,
non-eyecatching images. And THAT is reality for
for most REAL photographers ... altho not for the
dilettantes who produce "Great Captures", when
the muse moves them.
Jul 21, 2019 19:05:46 #
grandpaw wrote:
I watch a ton of photography videos and a lot of them shoot with the sun shade in the storage or reverse position. For the life of me I can't understand any scenario where this would be the way to go. Besides not blocking the sun or help protecting the front lens it just gets in the way. What am I missing here.
If I did it, it would be to protect the lens which it does a pretty good job of. It also keeps it conveniently at hand, rather than your having to dig for it in a camera bag or pocket.
Jul 21, 2019 19:13:45 #
mflowe wrote:
Because a lens hood is not needed 99.9% of the time. The only time I ever use it is in the rain. Storing it backwards on the lens is a convenient place to keep it if needed. I take it you never use filters. And I never believed in this myth of a lens gremlin just waiting around to scratch my front element. Been photographing 30 years and never hit the front of my lens on anything.
Since I don't know what I'm going to shoot (where the sun will be) when I go someplace, may need it, may not, it's just simpler to leave it on the "in use" orientation. Everyone does their own thing with them. there is no right or wrong, it just depends on whether one wants to use it or not. Sometime it's beneficial, sometimes it's superfluous. If the sun or side light is more forward than ≈120 from the front, I'm glad I have it on the lens. It's really no big deal for me leaving it mounted.
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