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That being said, it does what it's supposed to do. Lens covers are to the camera world what printer ink is to printers.
Amortize the die and stamping costs across all the units produced and that's probably like $0.10 each. There's probably $0.02 of plastic in this thing.
They're basically pure profit. Assembly, packing, shipping maybe another $0.10, and overhead costs around $0.10 if we're being extremely generous.
The upshot is that there's no way there's over $0.50 of cost to produce one of these suckers. So yeah, you're getting ripped off, but you expected it.
It's a bit difficult to put on and remove, and you wonder what the lifetime of the squeezy plastic bits that facilitate this process are.
This one is perfectly matched to Canon ES-62 EF 50mm f/1.8II Very easy to use and also making the photo beautiful.
I bought this hood (make sure you buy the hood that comes with the adapter) for the EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens. This hood is extremely flimsy and cheaply built. You squeeze the 2 buttons on the side to retract the 4 tiny little plastic dowels so that you can place it over the adapter and release the buttons to allow the little dowels to seat in the groove of the adapter. If you are a bit more serious about controlling stray light and get this hood just remember to take extreme caution each time cuz it feels like those tiny plastic dowels could snap very easily.If you are just a casual picture taker then don't even bother buying this thing.
Lens hoods should just come with all lenses as you really shouldn't use them without. Outside I was getting a lot of "haze" in my pictures and this has made them so much better. It is expensive for being a little piece of plastic but worth it.
The hood build isn't as good as others. It's not a twist on as I prefer them to be but this little bugger gets the job done.
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