jupiter-8 hood?

[Florian1234]

Hello, can someone please recommend a hood for the Juputer-8 lens?

Are Leica hoods (e.g. 12585H) useable or are they different?

 

[xayraa33]

check out seller Heavystar on the 'bay or go to Fedka's website for a 40.5mm dia. lens hood.

 

[Santafecino]

Look on eBay for a 40.5mm hood with vents and a tilted rim. Heavystar sells them. A Leica 12585 is similar but has a special mounting system and probably costs four times as much.
--Lindsay

 

[Florian1234]

Thanks. Just found a seller on Germany *bay. Thought they would only sell from abroad. But even better! 😉

 

[giovatony]

I use rubber collapsable hoods . Fedka has them for $7.95 and they work just fine.

 

[moving_electron]

What is the advantage of a vented hood. over a solid? Is it just the weight advantage?

[edit: Ahh. I see that the vented hood makes it easier to see through the hood with the rangefinder.]

 

[payasam]

You'd do well to visit www.fedka.com. I think four different kinds of hood are available there.

 

[ruben]

Those India/China made vented hoods sold at eBay work perfectly, even for a J-3 at f/1.5, i.e, without shadowing the film image corners.

Cheers,
Ruben

 

[xayraa33]

I have several of these vented hoods, but came to the conclusion that the best of the best 40.5mm screw-in standard hood for 50mm RF lenses is the original vintage Voigtländer 310/41 hood designed for the classic Vitessa cameras.

It is not rare and not expensive, and will protect the front lens element from oblique light rays way better than the modern Asian knock-off hoods. Plus, it's compact enough not to be seen at all in the camera viewfinder.

I like it so much that I've got three.

Absolutely highly recommended and worth the search on the auction site.

Example : item 330222701240.

I bought one of these lens hoods in a small photo shop in Europe in 1991.
I found it to be the best lens hood for my Nikkor 50/f2 lens.

 

[dll927]

The matter of "vented" is not for air circulation. It was an old Leica trick to help the photographer see past (or through) the hood, as it tended to be in the way of the viewfinder. SLRs don't have that problem.