Originally posted by a a i b
Read somewhere that the DA★50-135mm's hood can get broken pretty easily, and having used the lens for a week or so I can see how. It seems to only gingerly reverse on the lens for storage, and often doesn't stay attached this way.
Anyone decided to get an different hood for this lens? I'm concerned if I don't store the OEM one now it'll break, hold on ...
... damnit, actually it's broken already (got the camera out to look).
Any ideas?
Complain en masse till they upgrade it - it's TERRIBLE. When I look at the hoods for my FA* 85, it's GORGEOUS compared to that POS - lined with felt so there are NO reflections, beautiful accurate bayonette mount, clicks securely in place. They didn't even bother to sand the edges down on the new one, so the one I tried in the store you could actually get a nasty scrape from or even cut yourself in the wrong situation. Come on, Pentax, spend five or ten bucks and give us a decent hood, even if it's an option. That one must've cost you all of 20¢.
Dreadful thing, and embarrassing on a lens in that price range.
Originally posted by Canada_Rockies
The lens hood, even if it fits, may not be the best fit optically. The 50-135 hood will be tighter around the image area, and thus more effective against flare intruding from the sides. The Pentax hood seems to fit very, very tightly around the 50mm APS-C field of view based on my copy. If you can find a 50mm APS hood or a hood to fit a 75mm lens on film, it would be a better choice, even though it may not be a "petal" hood. The "petal" hoods are fitted very closely around the field of view of the zoom at its widest setting which is why the cutouts are necessary. Now if someone can create an exotic hood that moves in and out to compensate at all fields of view ...
That would be cool. And telescopically folds up...
Now we're just getting silly.
Cameron