$400 for a lens hood is totally nuts. If you want a
cheap $1.00 hood for a long tele just get some sturdy
paperboard , wrap around the lens and tape. Gets the
job done just as well and you save enough to get
another lens. Heck for $400 you can buy any one of
even the more expensive Zuikos used in ex condition.
I'd rather spend 400 on a 24/2 or 21/3.5 or 50/2 macro
than a freaking lens hood.
Mark Lloyd
--- Motor Sport Visions Photography
<msvphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In a message dated 12/16/2001 Jim Couch writes:
>
> << The raw materials for carbon composite materials
> (and titanum for
> that matter)
> are not expensive, it is working with the materials
> and turning it into
> something useful that is costly. >>
>
> Yeah, like $400.00 for a Nik*n lens hood for a
> 300/2.8 (gasp!). My
> friend Jim's looks really nice though...but $400.00
> for a lens hood?! I
> could get a carbon spinnaker pole for my boat for
> less than that. And
> people think Olympus overcharges...
>
> FWIW, a machinist friend of mine thinks that
> titainum as used in Apple
> notebooks (and Olympus cameras) is a marketing
> scam... (But then, he
> rides an Italian steel bicycle frame too...hasn't
> seen the light[speed]
> yet).
>
> Mike Veglia
> Motor Sport Visions Photography
> http://www.motorsportvisions.com
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