Yep, by golly, Dotline seems to have a picture of the very hood
and cap style you are telling us about. Good deal! I think the
rectangular hoods may do a better job than the tulips, though
I'll have to try them to be sure.
Len
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> Subject: Re: 24mm Lens Hoods
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>
> My description of the HAMA's operationI wasn't quite right.
>
> You can clamp it anywhere over the frontmost part of
> the lens barrel. By
> frontmost part, I mean the ledge extending from the
> filter ring to a point
> no farther than a centimeter back. Farther back, and
> you're usually on the
> focusing ring, where the HAMA's clamp won't fit and
> doesn't belong.
>
> On my 28/2K, the tiny nubs on the filter are blocking
> the HAMA from being
> slipped or wiggled onto the lens's ledge. I suppose I
> could file them down,
> but I think I'll just try the 55mm size.
>
> The HAMA's cam is simple but strong. It works
> somewhat like the buckles on
> the rubber boots you had to wear as a child.
> Actually, it's more like the
> cammed strap that secures an industrial chemical
> drum: When the cam is
> flipped "closed", the entire circumference of the
> hood (or the strap) is
> snugged against the barrel to equalize the
> compression force, like a hose
> clamp.
>
> I only wish that the cam, when opened, would expand
> the hood's circular
> inner diameter a bit more when opened, so the HAMA
> would slip over my
> nubbed filter. I suppose this tightness helps keep it
> secure. A sharp knock
> sometimes rotates the hood radially a few degrees;
> when that happens, I
> simply release the cam and rotate the hood back into position.
>
> Don't lose the hood's spring-loaded cap. I don't
> think anyone sells the cap
> alone. I haven't tested whether the cap is used in
> all three hood sizes.
>
>
>
> Paul Franklin Stregevsky,
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> W: (703) 834-4648
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