Robert Capa's lens hood

[Ken Ford]

Well, not really... but I wanted to appear less gear driven and more erudite 😉

I found and bought a different kind of aftermarket vented shade on the 'Bay - I'm not fond of my 40 Cron's rubber hood: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7603634253 First aftermarket tulip hood I've seen.

Anybody seen one of these before?

 

[kbg32]

Hey Ken, actually these are quite common. A "tulip" hood is like the example below.

 

[einolu]

THAT IS A PRETTY ONE!

(wish they made it in 40.5mm so that I could fit it on one of my jupiters)

 

[rich815]

Looks almost identical to the one I bought with my new Voigtlander 40/1.4 a year ago.

Go here: http://www.cameraquest.com/voigtlen.htm

and scroll down to the Voigtlander 40/1.4; the hood is just under the paragraph under the lenses.

 

[furcafe]

Actually, during a PBS documentary on Capa, I saw a picture of him using a Contax II w/5cm/2 collapsible Sonnar & the hood was the 42mm slip-on. That aside, I don't think I've ever seen a 39mm screw-in hood that looked like yours, which looks more like a clip-on (e.g., Leitz 12585) or bayonet (e.g., the Cosina Voigtlander hood that Rich815 has on his 40/1.4). The screw-in hoods usually look like the old Walz/Hoya/Kenko vented hoods w/straight sides (which I don't find any more or less attractive than the "tulip" style).

Well, not really... but I wanted to appear less gear driven and more erudite 😉

I found and bought a different kind of aftermarket vented shade on the 'Bay - I'm not fond of my 40 Cron's rubber hood: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7603634253 First aftermarket tulip hood I've seen.

Anybody seen one of these before?

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

And do we know what sort of socks Capa wore?

 

[Stephan]

And do we know what sort of socks Capa wore?

150mm push-on vented socks 😀

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

I'll get some of those socks tomorrow.

 

[Stephan]

I'll get some of those socks tomorrow.

They'll make your pictures better and your feet cooler 😀

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Exactly, if I had his camera and lens and his lens hood and his strap and even his socks I would be just as good as Robert Capa. Yes.

No, I don't think so.

 

[xayraa33]

he left behind some nicely tailored suits too. to go with his Nikon S.
he impressed Ingrid Bergmann it seems,and many other women.

 

[BillBingham2]

I've had a friend once who said that all I needed in life was a leica in one hand and a beautiful girl (her) in the other. The leica is still with me, she is gone, I do miss her, but at least I still have my leica.

B2 (;->

 

[xayraa33]

most Leicas are as reliable as a good piece of dawg

 

[Simon Larbalestier]

I've had a friend once who said that all I needed in life was a leica in one hand and a beautiful girl (her) in the other. The leica is still with me, she is gone, I do miss her, but at least I still have my leica.

B2 (;->

Love me Love my Leica....

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Well, not really... but I wanted to appear less gear driven and more erudite 😉

"Erudite"? How elitist of you! 😱 Adjectives do not become us, much less the tie-in of reading with photography 😉 (I'm kidding, by the way. I'm clarifying because I don't want others to misinterpret my being in-line with yer humour) 😱 How about "down-to-photo"?

Do you think lens hoods are of concern when bullets are flying about in the battle field? Methinks not.

 

[VinceC]

>>Do you think lens hoods are of concern when bullets are flying about in the battle field?<<

No, but you want your gear in order and peforming well so you weren't ducking bullets for no reason. If flare ruins the picture, you don't get a second chance.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

>>Do you think lens hoods are of concern when bullets are flying about in the battle field?<<

No, but you want your gear in order and peforming well so you weren't ducking bullets for no reason. If flare ruins the picture, you don't get a second chance.

Very true; but once can discern from many of his photos that "neatness" was the least of his concerns, and getting the shot no matter what was above all. I don't know if he mostly used coated lenses, but if he did, that would have helped a lot. I've never used a shade on any of my rangefinder lenses, except a few times on my 'cron, and can't avoid the collapsible hood in the 50 Summilux pre-asph. The Carl-Zeiss 50mm f/2 works very well without it. My 135mm CZJ, however, doesn't.

Besides, a big shiny hood, wouldn't that be a little attracting? I don't know, I'm not a photojournalist (in the "news" context, at least) so I know nothing about the photojournogearbiz.

 

[Ken Ford]

Hey! Who started with the photography discussion in a gear thread?!?