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A full frame lens will be supplied with a lens hood appropriate to the angle of view of the lens on a full frame camera body. A crop sensor camera body using the same lens will have a narrower field of view. Consequently there could be a light source within the angle of view of the lens hood, but outside the angle of view of the sensor. That would cause flare and veiling in the image which would be removed if the lens were fitted with a longer or narrower lens hood with the appropriate angle of view for the crop sensor. The question is how much? Does the use of too wide a lens hood cause enough of a hit in image quality in enough cases to matter?
I note too that the expensive lens hoods which sometimes come with expensive lenses are sometimes very much blacker inside than the black plastic used in cheap lens hoods. That means for example that patches of the lens hood which are illuminated by the sun will reflect less light into the lens than the rather light black of the usual self-coloured black plastic.
Are we crop sensor camera users taking a significant hit in image quality by not changing the lens hoods on our full frame lenses?
I note too that the expensive lens hoods which sometimes come with expensive lenses are sometimes very much blacker inside than the black plastic used in cheap lens hoods. That means for example that patches of the lens hood which are illuminated by the sun will reflect less light into the lens than the rather light black of the usual self-coloured black plastic.
Are we crop sensor camera users taking a significant hit in image quality by not changing the lens hoods on our full frame lenses?