Customer Reviews

Canon EW83F Lens Hood for 24-70mm f/2.8L Canon SLR Lens

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Buyers, if you are purchasing the 24-70 f/2.8 Lens, you will NOT need this hood.

The hood comes WITH the lens! So only purchase this if you need for a replacement or something of that nature. Otherwise you will have more than what you need.

Anyway:

Pros:
- Gets rid of lens flare
- Offers decent protection
- Reversible (To allow easy storage)

Cons:
- Grossly Over-Priced

The cost to make this is very (VERY) cheap, and the mark-up is just insane.

But I would advise not going with knock-offs due to poor construction and longevity.

the hood works great. it does precisely what you would want a lens hood to do:
- protects the lens
- reduces incident light
- 'reverses' to fit around the lens, which is nice for storing in a camera bag (or backpack, in my case)

the price is absurd, not to mention you get the hood as a 'free' accessory when you buy the 24-70mm lens (ie, you pay for it when you get the lens). forget amazon trying to bundle this hood with the lens -- that's a scam, although, giving amazon the benefit of the doubt as they deserve, these were probably paired by a computer program. again canon screwing customers on pieces of plastic (if the user lost the original hood) that really costs canon only a couple dollars to make. the price is inflated because anyone with an L lens will want to replace a hood immediately to protect their expensive glass.

if i lost this hood, i would buy another but not by canon. i'd get a generic brand hood (probably on an auction site) that fits the lens and pay not even half as much than is demanded here. no matter the brand of plastic, the hood will help so i don't need to spend nearly fifty bucks on a canon brand piece of plastic.

fully functional Canon lens hoodbut like many replacement parts seems grossly overpriced.

For those of you who are thinking of buying Chinese knockoffs, don't do it. Depressingly, I've tried a few of them, and non of them are any good. Knockoff hoods use cheaper plastics, and manufacturing processes that leave the product warped and in some cases unusable. The edges typically have bad finishes and can leave you with cuts, and the lens mount with scratches or worse. The inner and outer surface are usually not bonded correctly, meaning they don't give it enough time for the adhesive to cure before moving onto the next phase of cutting the flower petal shape. Their cutters are also obviously over-heated, as you can see where it's not cutting, but melting the plastic. Last thing to mention is that the inner surface in Canon hoods are lined with a felt like material. Knockoffs do not have this, They use a textured inner surface instead, thereby reducing cost and effectiveness. Do yourself a favor, you've spent over a thousand dollars on the lens, don't ruin it with a twenty dollar piece o' knockoff.

I purchased this lens hood originally because I didn't think the 24-70mm lens came with a hood. When my lens came it had the hood with it. So I have since returned this product but I can tell you it is EXACTLY the same as what Canon ships with the 24-70 lens. It just does not say Canon on the side. The plastic felt and looked exactly the same.

This hood is bundled with the canon 24-70mm f/2.8L lens. The only reason to purchase it by itself is if you bought a used lens that did not come with a hood or you're replacing a missing/damaged hood. As with most things made by Canon for their excellent line of digital SLRs, this product is very well made, albeit a tad expensive. The hood blocks direct sunlight admirably and the felt material inside diffuses any remaining bounce light. The only problem I've found in using it is that the end of the 24-70 f/2.8L lens telescopes out, thus reducing the hood's effectiveness for wide angle shots. Fully extended at 24mm, the hood offers the 24-70mm f/2.8L lens less than 1 inch of cover on the sides. This is not a problem with the hood itself, but it does appear to be a minor design oversight in the lens. Despite this single drawback it's an excellent product.

As it turns out the lens I purchased came with a lens hood. Oh well, I have an extra.

This baby is a must for your 24-70 lens. Because it's such a versatile lens, you will want this to help brave sun flare, or other weather conditions. Plus...it's great for protecting the lens. This thing has saved mine from a few bumps and bruises because it takes the impact if I knock it when walking by something like a chair or table.

It's hit or miss if a Canon lens will include the hood. The place that I ordered the lens from didn't say anything about the hood being included. So I went ahead and ordered the hood from Amazon so I had it when the lens arrived. The authoritative site is Canon's site and check what is included in the box for any given lens. Naturally the lens hood was included, so I ended up selling this for a loss.

Anyway... yes. You can buy a cheaper knock-off lens hood for about half the price. However a lens hood is not a decorative object just stuck on the end of your lens to make your lens look big. It IS serving a purpose. You want to reduce flare on a capture, so you're attempting to eliminate stray light hitting the lens surface. Buy a cheap Chinese knock-off hood, and what do you see? A nicely polished glossy interior to the hood. Canon's hood has a flocking on the interior of the hood which is designed to cut down on the light hitting the lens surface.

Canon's lens hoods are an interesting excercise in pricing and marketing. If you buy an L lens, then the hood comes with it anyway - so I suppose this would be a replacement scenario.

If I had to replace the hood on mine, I'd look for an aftermarket solution. There is just no excuse whatsoever for this to cost more than $10 or so...

It is a shaped piece of plastic.