Logan Leachman >I am about to purchase an 80-200 AF-D and hood. What would be the Advantage >or disadvantage of a scalloped hood? Logan There would be no advantage to using a scalloped hood on lens such as this. The scalloped hoods are for wide angle zooms and primes where the angle of view might include the edges of the hood. I would think that only lenses wider than a 24mm would benefit from a scalloped hood. Terry Graham