Canon 35mm/f2 LTM Lens Hood and Filter

[Vier14]

Hi,

I've recently bought a nice Canon 35/2 for my Leica M2, with no filter or lens hood.

40mm filter are rare. Do you know if I need to find an original 40mm filter (Serie VI I guess) or if I can find a new one? It seems, for instance, that the Fuji X10 requires a 40mm filter. So I was tempted to acquire a relatively cheap one on the Internet. Besides, a lens hood comes with it.

Regarding the original lens hood, it seems that two types of Canon Hood exists. One screw-in , the other clamp-on. I've heard that only the clamp-on suits the 35/2. Is that true?

Thanks for your help

Best regards

Olivier

 

[FrankS]

What I've done for mine, is buy a step up filter, actually both a 40 to 40.5 and a 40 to 43mm.

 

[JMQ]

Canon did not make a dedicated hood for the 35/2. You can use FrankS' solution of the step-up adapters to use many of the Canon and non-Canon hoods available.

 

[chrishayton]

If you pop onto ebay and look for the cheap Fuji X10 copy hoods they fit and work with the canon 35mm F2.
I have tried 40.5 hoods with step rings but they all vignetted, the X10 hood isn't as deep
Regards Chris

 

[Vier14]

Thanks all for these shrewd advice.

Best regards

Olivier

 

[Particular]

If you pop onto ebay and look for the cheap Fuji X10 copy hoods they fit and work with the canon 35mm F2.
I have tried 40.5 hoods with step rings but they all vignetted, the X10 hood isn't as deep
Regards Chris

The x10 hoods I looked at have 52mm thread. How do you mount that on a 40mm thread? Am I missing something?

I have always shot the canon 'naked'. It is not a lens that badly needs a hood. At one point I used an old walz 40mm filter, but that actually introduced flare, so I took it off. I have an old plastic FED lens cap that fits perfectly that I pop on and off for protection.

 

[chrishayton]

It fits 40mm thread, the inside of the hood then has a inner thread of 52mm to mount filters. Similar to the Series filters with the 35mm 1.4 Pre-Asph does