The built-in lenshood of the 50mm Summilux is way too short

[AGeoJO]

At least on the M8 with its 1.33X crop, that is. It is barely longer than the IR cut filter I put on. I still have my Contax G system plus lenses and I took the lenshood from the Sonnar G 90mm and put in on the Summilux over the filter and voila, it works with no vignetting on the M8 and the images appear to be snappier, too 😀 .

The color doesn't quite match (I have a chrome version of the 50mm Summilux ASPH but no big deal, of course) and the lens becomes bulkier with the hood attached. I will continue using it for a while and will weigh in the added bulk against the apparent increase in (ever so slight) image quality. I will look into buying a hood for the 75 and 90 crons that I know for sure will benefit from extra long external hoods. I will stick with the original petal-shape hoods of the WA lenses though.

 

[Xmas]

It is ok to drop the camera with the Contax hood on it as well! An important point after you drop it... You will need a new hood afterwards but the filter ring might survive, and perhaps the lens ring too...

Noel

 

[spikey]

I was thinking (and have not found any reference yet) that the lenshoods of all lenses will be wrong when used with the 1.33 crop factor. Tried the lenshood of the 50mm on my 35mm summaron - no intrusion in the frame. Would it not be normal to expect to be able to buy the correct (corrected) lenshoods matching the resulting focal lens. Or am I going overboard?
H.

 

[Richard Marks]

The hood for the 50 mm elmar works very well on the new elmarit 28 2.8 (thanks JAAP). Its a lot better than the plastic hood supplied with the lens. The only problem with changing the hoods round is that you definately vignettes if the lens is then put on a film body with the same hood. That is a nuisance!

Richard