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I have recently purchased both the DA 1.8 50mm and DA 2.4 35mm lenses. I am enjoying both, but am having trouble choosing lens hoods for them.
Currently I am using Hakuba metal lens hoods I picked up from Yamada Denki in Tokyo along with Pentax 58mm caps on the ends.
My main worry is that both lenses have the front glass very close to the front of the lens and I want to keep them pristine as long as possible.
But the faces I get from the camera shops in Japan tells me that maybe I am violating some laws of photography, most likely that the 35mm requires a wider lens hood.
Anyone have advice on the optimal hoods for each of these are, hopefully with some sort of lens cap option? Until then, I will use my current combination and live with the strange faces of camera shop grandpas.