Adorama came through in a big way! Canon 50/1.2!

[photobizzz]

Well still on the hunt for an OEM hood, kevinscameras has offered me an EX+++ (as he describes it) one for $175, I may pay the money, even though it is ridiculous since I want it so bad. Seems kind of silly since a generic 55mm wide angle metal hood for $10 will work fine too...I also can buy one for 14 GBP that is for the Zuiko 55/1.2, but I have some time to look since I cant have it mailed now anyway (moving next week)

Oh the choices...

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I'm not sure if Walz made a hood for the 50/1.2, but the one for the 50/1.5 is nicer than the Canon hood that I have for the 50/1.4. The Walz shade is vented, and beautifully painted. It feels a bit heavier than the original Canon hoods. The other type to look for is a Series VII filter adapter and hood.

 

[raid]

I once bought for $650 a camera bag filled with Canon items. It included among others a mintish VI-L in a beautiful leather case, with a Canon 35mm/1.8, 50mm/2.8, 50mm/1.2 with leather cased lens hood for the 1.2 and a Tiffen filter, and many accessories like Canon lens hoods. It also included a Canon Meter.

Aaaaah,what a wonderful buy that was.

 

[Keith]

If you can justify (afford?) the expense of the genuine hood I would suggest you go for it Colin ... they really are a nice hood and the look and fit are absoultely perfect IMO. (not to mention they work with out blocking your view)

Plus ... much like the lens I can't see them going backwards in value!

 

[Rogrund]

Keith, has your original hood ever loosened from the lens? I have one too, and sometimes I'm afraid I will knock the hood off when I'm carrying the camera over my shoulder. The fastening screw is so tiny and hard to tighten...

 

[Keith]

Keith, has your original hood ever loosened from the lens? I have one too, and sometimes I'm afraid I will knock the hood off when I'm carrying the camera over my shoulder. The fastening screw is so tiny and hard to tighten...

It's never happened but I guess the possibillity is there ... I always wind the little screw up pretty tight.

You've got me worried now! 😛

 

[Rogrund]

You've got me worried now! 😛

Oops, sorry. 😱 Your hood looks like new, mine looks like it's already been dropped a few times...

 

[LeicaTom]

The Canon factory hood is way overpriced and really not as rare as it`s all hyped up to be, I don`t find it as practial at all for a "user" hood either, it just looks good that`s all...... 😉

I`ve found the 57mm clamp-on Yashica 35 hood to be the perfect hood combo when using on a M Leica, funny the generic lens hood cover, almost matches the M6 covering, it looks really sharp and it cost me like $15 for both, from a small camera shop here in town.

Next to my "Wartime" f1.5/50 CZJ Sonnar T and my Canon f1.5/50 the f1.2 is also one of my favorite lenses, never falling short of what I try to get out of it and on the M6 it`s wonderful!

Tom

PS: Ohh filters for the f1.2 are a pain, while Canon designed them special for the lens, with a recessed mount and raised glass, you have to be lucky to find them, but it`s worth having an original UV or Skylight filter on the front to protect the glass, you can find them on ebay sometimes under $40......

 

[photobizzz]

Well I had to make a deal with my wife, I wanted to by one of the small laptops with the Intel Atom processor, and the one I bought was $400 (2GB Ram & 250GB HD) so I promised to not buy the outrageously priced Canon hood, I will either get the Yashica or Zuiko hoods that clamp on since they can be had for about $25 or less, not a bad trade off since I am loving this little PC. It has great battery life (5 hrs) and weighs 2.5 lbs!

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Your computer has already depreciated more than that Canon hood has cost.

Should have gone for that Micron Trek II on Ebay for $35....

 

[photobizzz]

Well not sure what a micron trek II is but I am sure it wont run microsoft office 2007 and adobe photshop, as well as I am running windows vista, I have a high powered desktop but this is nice for travel, I can check my email without lugging around a big laptop, also makes it easy to edit the digital photos from my Ricoh GX100 on the go since it has a SD card reader built in.