The OM lens handbook specifies that no hood is required, but if you add the
macro closeup lens to it the front element is about flush with the front.
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Jim Couch <zuikoholic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> There is no Olympus hood for the 80 f/4. A hood is not needed as the
> front element is recessed quite a ways inside the lens body, at least
> that is the official party line.
>
> usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Wonder if there is a "usual " hood for this macro lens. Used brown
> > chapeau (a la Walt)
> > last time with adequate results though wondered why there is not THE
> > hood. The FE doesn't look deeply recessed enough to be sufficient by
> > itself to my eye. Perhaps I am incorrect.
>
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