Re: Silver MZ-S/ Re: Imperfect hoods....

2001-03-08 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
IMO, the rectangular hoods, not the square,k like they used to make for the 50mm M lenses are the best. BTW, If someone has one they want to sell please e-mail me. --Tom dosk wrote: Read an article in a photomag by an older, experienced writer whom I respect. He says these new tulip

Re: Silver MZ-S/ Re: Imperfect hoods....

2001-03-07 Thread dosk
Read an article in a photomag by an older, experienced writer whom I respect. He says these new tulip shaped "perfect hoods" are anything but! Seems their odd scooped-out shapes allow all kinds of flare and glare into the lens. Man says nothing beats a $5 (imperfect?) rubber lens hood for

Re: Silver MZ-S/ Re: Imperfect hoods....

2001-03-07 Thread Bojidar Dimitrov
Recently dosk wrote: Read an article in a photomag by an older, experienced writer whom I respect. He says these new tulip shaped "perfect hoods" are anything but! Seems their odd scooped-out shapes allow all kinds of flare and glare into the lens. Man says nothing beats a $5 (imperfect?)

Re: Silver MZ-S/ Re: Imperfect hoods....

2001-03-07 Thread K.Takeshita
on 3/7/01 12:41 PM, dosk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, but I cannot follow your logic and understand almost nothing of what you're talking about here. The article I read had all kinds of flare tests performed, with results that stated that the "perfect" hood was definitely not

Re: Silver MZ-S/ Re: Imperfect hoods....

2001-03-07 Thread Rob Studdert
On 7 Mar 2001, at 10:28, Bojidar Dimitrov wrote: Having just spent all of 60 seconds thining on this topic, and having done no experiments, my gut reaction is to disagree. The "tulip" shape is due to the fact that we are trying to cut out the potions of the light cone that are outside of