Canon ES-62 Lens Hood for EF 50mm f/1.8 II (w/ hood adapter 62) by Canon Cameras US
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Digital camera reviews of Canon ES-62 Lens Hood for EF 50mm f/1.8 II (w/ hood adapter 62)
Digital camera Review: It Works For Me
Summary: 4 Stars
When I used my 50mm 1.8 outside in bright sunlight I frequently got very overexposed pictures, more than two stops in some cases using aperture priority on my Rebel XSI. I partially remedied that by setting my exposure -2/3. I agree with others this is overpriced for a piece of plastic, but since adding this filter I have no overexposures. It's worth it for me.Digital camera Review: It works pretty good, just a few niggles.
Summary: 4 Stars
I prefer the standard twist hood mounts, but as the nifty 50 doesn't have one the mechanism this uses is ok. As was already stated it is a bit shallow. The retention buttons annoy me a bit because I tend to squish the hood as I'm trying to take it off which makes it harder to take off, but they did good for what they had. I do wonder why canon couldn't make an adapter with standard twist instead of this though.
4 stars due to shallowness and the odd mount.
Digital camera Review: Meh
Summary: 4 Stars
There's probably $0.02 of plastic in this thing. Amortize the die and stamping costs across all the units produced and that's probably like $0.10 each. 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. They're basically pure profit. Lens covers are to the camera world what printer ink is to printers.
So yeah, you're getting ripped off, but you expected it. That being said, it does what it's supposed to do. 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.
Digital camera Review: Necessary Evil
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Digital camera Review: Necessary Evil
Summary: 3 Stars
Pros:
- It's a hood
- The adapter ring is of nice construction
Cons:
- Expensive for just a hood!
- The hood itself (that clips onto the adapter ring) feels a little on the cheap side with the way the plastic clips onto the adapter ring
- I don't have huge fingers, but it's difficult for me to get my fingers in there to manually focus my Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens.
Overall:
A necessary evil. I think I was able to swallow the steep price for this because I just thought about how much I invested in the camera, memory cards, lenses, bags, etc. and this seemed negligible :P