rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

AND, who are you replying to, eh ?

Eric Bornstein Loc: Toronto Canada

Always. Protects the lens, shields the sensor from unwanted Byrd light. The only time I don’t use the hood is when zi use my neutral dendsity lens and the hood won’t fit over it,

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

WOW! It's sometimes difficult to get the basic, time-time-honored correct information out around here without some folks getting cranky and complaining about the length of the thread or some folks just dispensing incorrect information.

Flare can occur in many different weather conditions- not only in bright sunlight. Stray light can strike the lens indirectly having been reflected off various surfaces. It can occur on hazy, cloudy-bright, and even mildly overcast days. Flare generated indoors from any kind of artificial light, from light entering through a window or skylight, or even in a studio under controlled conditions when "kicker", accent, rim or back-lighting is applied.

My goodness, is it that inconvenient to snap or screw-on and off a lens shade? Even a polarizing filter can be fitted with a lens shade and easily rotated along with the shade- when using a filter the potential for flare increases. Bellows lens shades are equipped with a filter drop-in slot for fast insertion and removal of square or rectangular filters. If you need to work in hurried circumstances there are ways to work around these issues.

Thomas902 Loc: Washington DC

Awesome! Many thanks RWR... Have the BR-3 but forgot that it could work on a reverse mounted Nikkor lens...
And the extension tube add-on will certainly tame the flare from my strobes...

All the best on your journey RWR

williejoha

ALWAYS
WJH

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Thank you for the kind words!

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My choices of when to use or not use, and my experiments that provided me that guidance, are so enormously beyond the appreciation of a herd of users religiously chanting “always - Always - ALWAYS - ALWAYS”, ad nauseum, that I can only offer my sincerest gratitude for all that fine amusement in these days where entertainment is getting harder and harder to find. Keep the faith, ALWAYS !

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

I’ll just hazard a guess that your skills are not “enormously beyond the comprehension” of many of the pros and advanced amateurs here. Amazing (but not surprising) hubris reflected in your usual contrarian response.

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“Amazing but not surprising hubris ...” ? Amazing will hafta do. Amazing is good. Amazing how much someone really cares by page 7 after 98 nearly identical posts.

Well thank you, seriously, thank you from a card carrying member of Hubris-R-Us.

So sorry you are not entertained. Certain religions frown on frivolity. No intentions of demeaning anyone’s faith. Believers in “Always-Always” are some tough crowd, always (there’s that word again) sooooo deadly serious !!! Yes, “deadly”, as in “seriously unhealthy”, or “unhealthily serious”, or even both faces of that coin. So, seriously, keep the faith ... always.

See ya around the hood !

williejoha

User ID, you need a life. Be well
WJH

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No problem. I have several. They are compartmental, so here you will see only one, far less serious than the others. Be well, as well ... always !

Nicholas J DeSciose

Why would a lunch should be used to alter a photo

Nicholas J DeSciose

I meant to say lens shade sorry, one of its main purposes it’s keep light from flairing into the lens

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“Lunch should” would likely be the Auto Corrected spelling of “lens shade” :-)

Artificial Intelligence is a lot like artificial fruit flavoring. IOW, it’s rather vaguely related to the real thing.

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The BR3 incorporates a bit of hood depth, about 12mm deep by 52 diameter, and is 52mm female threaded in case you need to add more lens hood depth, or maybe a filter or diopter. Seems to be intended as the filter adapter ring for reversed lenses. If there are any forgotten uses for it I’ve forgotten what they are :-)

A similar device is the K3 ring that is the front terminus of the old 52mm threaded manual extension tube set. It hasn’t any “hood depth” of its own but just add any one section of the threaded manual tube sections and you’ve got your choice of 3 different hood depths. You could add a 52mm filter (but it will face backward, so a diopter or a PL is not a great idea).

An old manual tube set is only about $15 all over ebuy if you don’t already have a set knocking around. I imagine many Hogsters do have a set, if only they can remember where it is !