Originally posted by Lowell Goudge As people talk hoods, one thing to consider in the ASP-C world is that you can gain a ton, by extending the hoods far beyond the stock hoods for most legacy lenses because the hoods were either deisgned for multiple lenses, and they are designed for full frame field of view. I use the hood of my SMC tak 200/4 on my supertak 85 for example,
Steep down 1-2 focal length steps with all your hoods because the light that covers a full frame (film for example) just goes into baffles in the mirror box on a DSLR
I use my 135 hood on my 85 and 50, my 50 hood on 35 and 28. My 28 hood I really only use when shooting film with the 28 and 35.