Flower lens hood vs round hood?
The differences are not so small and most noticeable
when it comes to short range zooms and primes.
The "tulip" will always do the better job - specially on
shorter lenses.
A good example is the 70~200mm zoom with it's rather
strong shape tulip. The depth is optimised for the long
part of the zoom and the cuts are for the shorter 70mm.
Shorter zooms need shallower tulips.
Some very famous american Nikon ambassador photo-
grapher missed a chance to shut up when starting some
polemic as to why he rejected the "ugly" tulip for the rub-
ber screw-in older type of lens shade.
Ernesto's right, in case of doubt, follow the maker's recom-
mendations.
Happy new year!
Light is free… capturing it is not!
Nikon Shooter wrote: Great question, Carry!
The differences are not so small and most noticeable
when it comes to short range zooms and primes.
The "tulip" will always do the better job - specially on
shorter lenses.
A good example is the 70~200mm zoom with it's rather
strong shape tulip. The depth is optimised for the long
part of the zoom and the cuts are for the shorter 70mm.
Shorter zooms need shallower tulips.
Some very famous american Nikon ambassador photo-
grapher missed a chance to shut up when starting some
polemic as to why he rejected the "ugly" tulip for the rub-
ber screw-in older type of lens shade.
Ernesto's right, in case of doubt, follow the maker's recom-
mendations.
Happy new year!
Good post and advice. At the end, don't get creative, keep what the manufacture had on it. Likely was for good reason.
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