Canon EW65II Lens Hood for Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 & EF 35mm f/2 SLR Lenses

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009R6UX
• Item model number: 2656A002
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 17, 2004

Product Description

One of the most important accessories for each lens you own. A lens hood provides multiple functions: it shades the lens from stray light, improving your contrast and image quality; in inclement weather, it can assist in keeping moisture or wind-blown debris off the lens; and it protects the front barrel from the inevitable impacts against walls, door frames, and other real-life obstacles. Almost all EF and TS-E lenses have a Canon lens hood engineered specifically for it.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So-so hood, but this lens really needs it.., May 6, 2007

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Xizzy (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon EW65II Lens Hood for Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 & EF 35mm f/2 SLR Lenses (Electronics)

Canon EF 35mm F/2 lens glares easily from the stray sun rays, so a hood is necessary.

PROS:

* Easy to attach and detach (Snaps on, no need to align the dots).

CONS:

* Unlike screw-on hoods, the attachement to the lens is wobbly and doesn't feel solid.

* Not large enough to protect from all the glares. Occasionally, I have to use my hand or a baseball cap as an improvised hood extesion.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Important, January 5, 2011

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Branden (Northern California) - See all my reviews

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I use lens hoods on all my lenses absolutely every time the lenses are used. They block glares, fingers, debris, and whatever else comes at your lens from damaging anything delicate. On New Years Day a few days ago, I was shooting with the EF35mm f/2 lens with this hood attached, when I slipped and fell down a muddy hill. Really graceful and catlike, I know. Anyway, the point is that this hood blocked the lens from getting muddy or damaged. I had to clean the hood quite extensively, which was fine, since at least I wasn't cleaning mud off the lens. Doubly so, since I wasn't using a "protection" filter at the time, since "protection" filters tend to add glares, whereas hoods lessen them.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars lightweight hood for small prime lenses, October 29, 2009

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Omar Siddique (Ellicott City, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon EW65II Lens Hood for Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 & EF 35mm f/2 SLR Lenses (Electronics)

Lightweight plastic, but not cheap feeling. There's no hint of a seam between the outer plastic and thin inner layer of textured/light absorbing material. Doesn't feel like it's going to fall off my Canon EF 35mm f/2 Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras, onto which the hood clips effortlessly.

Seems like a decent length (long enough to catch oblique light) but I haven't been able to test in bright sunlight yet.

Sadly, it does not fit my Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras. Wish there was more standardization of lens hoods so I didn't need more than one.

It's not a heavy, metal, screw-on hood for an L-series lens, but one of those would look silly (and add purpose-defeating weight) fitted on the two rather small primes for which this is designed.

Recommended.