For those of you who have complained of excessive looseness of the lenshood supplied with the 80-200/2.8 AF-S try this: After you line up the white dots and rotate the hood into place, try turning it just a bit more. My dealer pointed this out to me. The hood actually snaps into place and once it does, it ain't goin' nowhere! For me, this is something of a moot point as the hood is way too big to be of any practical use. As it is, the nude lens barely fits in most camera bags. I use a 77mm collapsible rubber hood made for the Mamiya RB/RZ lenses. Very portable, very well made. One other tidbit for afficianados of Arca-style tripod mounting plates: Really Right Stuff is taking orders for a new B86 plate designed for the 80-200 AF-S. It will be available in April for $55 plus shipping. Dave F.
