3rd party hood for GF670?

[mugent]

Hi,

Is there any reason I'm not getting why I'd pay £60 for the Fuji clip-on hood rather than £10 for a 3rd party one for my GF670?

I'm not too concerned about it's flare stopping talents, more the ease of clipping a filter on as opposed to screwing it on.

Something like this would appear to be the thing to get...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Polaroid-Stu...3&sr=8-3-fkmr2

MT

[John NYC]

The Bessa III hood clips on. Plus you can mount filters and use it simultaneously.

That said, I don't think I have ever used the hood I bought. The lens simply doesn't flare in my experience.

[mugent]

I understand it clips, but so do some 3rd part once for much less cash. I'd need to make sure it had a filter thread of course.

Maybe I'll order one from Amazon, see if it works, I can always return it.

Cheers

MT

[John NYC]

Yeah, but I guess the real thing I am saying is... why do you think you need the hood? I don't know the mojo in those coatings, but the thing is almost flare proof. I view my buying the hood as a mistake. Have you actually had issues where you see you need it?

[hlopsys]

Originally Posted by John NYC

That said, I don't think I have ever used the hood I bought. The lens simply doesn't flare in my experience.

Unfortunately, from my recent experience it flares even with with native hood with side light. Plus, hood is needed to improve total contrast of the shot. So, either native or 3rd party hood is highly recommended

[pgeobc]

The Fuji hood (I own one) allows one to seat the filter in the hood and then screw on a retaining ring. Then the hood is mounted. The Bessa is exactly like that.

The only problem with the Fuji and the Bessa hoods are that one much use slim profile filters in a screwy size (40.5?, I forget now) and they are very difficult to find in anything more than a simple UV. Rodenstock has a good line of them, but nobody imports any usual Rodenstock filters, that I can find.

[Fotohuis]

Each lens will give flair but the C.V. Bessa III 667 keeps it from the right a bit less due to the collapsible system.
The C.V. hood works OK but is very expensive but you can fit in a 40,5mm filter (Heliopan/Rodenstock) and leave it there, take the hood off and close the camera. Due to the leaf shutter (1/500s max.) a ND 0,6 filter can be also very handy. It takes away 2F stops.

As already told each lens hood is a good accessory. Also on my Leica M lenses I always use a hood. With this collapsible camera you need a hood too but it should be quickly go on and off the camera.
The use of any filter on the lens itself is very impractible because every time you have to unscrew it when closing.

[Fabio Ruffet]

Do you know if you could attach a step up adapter from 39mm to 40.5mm without causing vignetting? This would allow me to use my existing ones 39mmLeica lenses...

[Fotohuis]

For an Eur. 2000 camera better to buy an Eur. 90,- lenshood.

[Fabio Ruffet]

yes i mean to buy the official hood. Just wondering about the filters attaching to it.

Anyway I did a bit more research and found out the filters need to be super slim so it would not work

[Dana B.]

I'm already committed to a spin-on filter, but was considering the easy-to-attach hood. After learning that filters for it are difficult to find, I'm going to bag the notion. I've not had a problem with flare.

[Fotohuis]

After learning that filters for it are difficult to find, I'm going to bag the notion.

40,5mm is a standard size for most Rodenstock lenses too and is a standard size in the Heliopan filter program.

[edouard]

I bought mine for 65 cnd $. minolta filter uv 40.5 mm 10 $ us

[Katsumushi]

The space between the lens and the cover release is very narrow. Unless the hood has the same outside diameter as the lens for a few mm it will impinge upon the cover release. I have tried aftermarket hoods without success. I finally bought the dedicated hood. I find that I am a little clumsy with the 40.5mm filters. I use 58mm Hoya filters and I have no problems with the hood attachment or vignetting.