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Serious question!

Is there any difference between buying a cheap ebay lens hood and a genuine canon apart from £20!
 
Are these cheap eBay hoods exactly the same shape as the Canon hoods?

You might be buying cheap but buying twice. At least with a Canon product you can rest assured that it's designed to suit the Canon lens. Personally I would pay the extra for the genuine product.
 
There may be 2 differences

1. The quality of plastic. You would expect them to be similar, but they can even fail here. It could be a little tight fit for example

2. The inside material. Most canon ones have black felt (kills reflections), while ebay could be plain and reflective plastic. But then for example canon 85/1.8 hood is awful.

Do your research and make sure you buy the right one, don't just blindly click on the cheapest.
 
daugirdas said:
There may be 2 differences

1. The quality of plastic. You would expect them to be similar, but they can even fail here. It could be a little tight fit for example

2. The inside material. Most canon ones have black felt (kills reflections), while ebay could be plain and reflective plastic. But then for example canon 85/1.8 hood is awful.

Do your research and make sure you buy the right one, don't just blindly click on the cheapest.
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any idea what hood to get for a an 85mm f1.8 as that's what I'm looking for!
 
Ferj said:
any idea what hood to get for a an 85mm f1.8 as that's what I'm looking for!
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find a used one on ebay as cheap as you can. It should be doable within 2-3 weeks. If not buy 3rd party, but don't bother paying for new Canon. It is nothing like their L ones.
 
It was really hard to justify £50 :eek: for a simple plastic hood for my 28 f2.8 IS. I've got JJC replacement for less than £8 and it is not bad at all. It has non-reflective internal surface and also snap-in mechanism with release button. Overall I am happy with it and still have no will to spend £50 for the genuine one. Canon are out of their mind.
 
My experience with cheap lens hoods that I have picked up on ebay is that they have all been fine & pretty much identical to the real thing.
 
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I buy cheap metal ones and they've all been perfect. I do have one plastic one which came free with something else and I have to say that it seems to be of a higher quality than any big name manufacturer plastic hood I've ever encountered.

There may be some poor ones out there but all the cheap/free ones I've had have been excellent.
 
I have been using Fuji X lens,and they all seem to come with a not to a bad lens hood,before most of the Nikon lens came with lens hoods.
But sometimes when they haven't been able to pick up one of e.bay most of which have been ok.
Also I check out my local cameras shops,quite often they have some cheap lens hoods in s/h that's have fitted my lens.

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I mislaid my OEM Canon hood for the 17-85mm, and replaced it with a third party one. No complaints so far, and it was about a third of the price.

Canon only supply hoods with their L series lenses, and this continues to irritate me because many of the consumer lenses are quite expensive too. Charging for the hoods - which can't cost much to manufacture - smacks of a rip off.
 
I always go for cheap eBay hoods. Metal for the primes and rubber 3-stage collapsibles for teles. I've found them to be excellent quality. The only hood I've had break has been a proprietary one.

Let others subsidise the profits of the big boys, save some cash, and get whatever shape hood you want.
 
When my strap broke and my camera & nikon 70/200 2.8 dropped straight onto concrete surface, straight down, the lens hood took the impact and broke the fall, lens and camera totally undamaged and still working fine :thumbs: , hood cracked, but still usable with bit of duct tape
Some lens hoods may be cheaper but the ones I looked at were also far flimsier, so £40 (i think) for a new new hood was a no brainer for me, it saved the lens, a small price to pay
 
For best flare resistance, line with self-adhesive black felt - 80p from HobbyCraft .

A shiny lens hood can be worse than none, as it catches side light and reflects it straight into the lens.
 
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