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Re: [OM] Lens hoods - was geee whizzz... me tooo

Subject: Re: [OM] Lens hoods - was geee whizzz... me tooo
From: Skip Williams <skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:53:00 -0500
For the 40/2:
- I have a rubber hood marked for three lenses:  40/2, 85/2, 100/2.8.
- As to the comment for the 50/1.8 hood. The set-screw hood that I have is marked for three lenses too: 50/1.4, 50/1.8, 35/2.8. It will fit on the 40/2, but as the aperture numbers are on the outer lens ring, the hood's mounting ring will obscure the numbers. It's use wouldn't be very practical.
- You could use the 24/2.8 hood, it fits, but it's too wide.

As for the 24 Shift, it has it's own flower petal "hood". That mother-of-a front element is so big you can't put filters on it, they're internal.. I bet the image circle's angle of view for the 24 shift is somewhere between the equivalent of a 15-18mm lens. so it would have to be a mother of a hood to fit.

Also, notice that the same hood fits the 135/4.5 Macro and the 90/2 Macro.

I'm surprised that the 16/3.5 Fisheye doesn't have the same "petals" like the 24 shift. Many other full frame fisheye lenses from other mfgrs have these. I guess Olympus wanted to keep the size down as much as possible. It does expose the front element rather a lot though.

Anybody know of a hood for the 24 Shift or the 40/2?

Skip





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Skip Williams
Westfield, NJ
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