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Originally Posted by dcstep
Well, that's absolutely silly. When I shoot without the hoods I'll often see flare that the hood will take away. My Canon L-series lens are the best that Canon makes and they were made in the last year. Good as the coatings are that can't keep light from bouncing into the lens or actually hitting it from outside the image area. I think you making this up or have little or no actual experience with high end lenses.
I think your last paragraph says the real reason that you feel this way, you're afraid you'll look like a "tool." My lenses have "fixed" front mounts (they don't turn) but the lens hoods attach outside of the filter threads, on the outside of the lenses.
Dave
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Well Dave, not sure why you feel the need for the hood. Look around at a baseball game. Damn few if any hoods on those guys monster lenses. I've been shooting without them for years, and haven't had a problem. I shoot Nikkor lenses, so I can't speak directly for Canon, but I had assumed that a Canon lens was using just as good of glass technology as Nikon.
My customers and gallery owners don't see the flare, and neither do I, so I see absolutely no need to toy with the stupid hoods. They just get in the way of chaning and adjusting my filters.