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Canon EW78BII Lens Hood for EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Canon SLR Lens | 
 enlarge | Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $35.00
Buy New: $20.20
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 4.1 x 3.8 x 2.3
MPN: 2676A002
Model: 2676A002
UPC: 082966440830
EAN: 0082966440830
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Lens hood to shade and prevent water splashes | | • | Keeps debris off lens | | • | Compatible with EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Canon SLR Lens |
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Product Description
Canon is an industry leader in professional and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. Canon's extensive product line enables businesses and consumers worldwide to capture, store and distribute visual information. Cannon provides a wide range of accessories that are fully tested and 100% compliant with the corresponding equipment. All accessories are noted for their high reliability and superior quality.Canon offers a lens hood for EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Improves contrast and image quality while offering some protection July 15, 2006
77 out of 77 found this review helpful
Hoods offer several benefits to the photographer. Primarily the hood shades the lens from stray light that may result in an unwanted discoloration or hazing of the image, or the appearance of lens flare. Shading your lens helps improve contrast and image quality. A hood is not required to eliminate these problems, as any item used to shade the lens will provide the same protection from stray light. The hood is convenient in that it is built to offer protection while ensuring that it will not inadvertently find its way into your image.
Photographers often state the protective abilities of a hood as a reason to have one. This hood being a solid petal shaped offers limited protection from keeping moisture and wind blown debris off the from lens element. When in place, the hood can protect the lens from impacting solid objects. Being shallow and petal shaped, this type of protection is also limited. Even if the protection is limited, replacing a damaged hood is usually cheaper than repairing the lens and easier to replace.
This hood is manufactured for the Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM zoom and normally is not included with the lens when sold new. Amazon often suggests purchasing one with your lens, and is worth considering.
Since the hood is wider than the lens; it can easily be stored attached in a reverse position. This doesn't add to the length of the lens, but does make it wider by about an inch. An inch may not seem like a lot, but in a tightly packed camera bag, it is huge. This lens itself isn't unusually wide so the extra inch may not be a problem.
While the protective benefits exist, they are secondary and limited. I find the impact the hood has on my image quality to be the more convincing reason to use a hood. Considering the impact on image quality and the low cost as compared to my other camera equipment (except for a lens case), purchasing a hood is money well spent.
PROS:
Improves contrast and image quality
Reduces lens flare problems
Offers limited protection to the lens
CONS:
Takes up more space in your camera bag to store with the lens
Pros and Cons May 11, 2006
46 out of 49 found this review helpful
Pros:
- Reduces flare and ghosting when shooting in bright light.
- Helps protect your lens from dirt and scratches.
- Somewhat protects the lens in case of a fall. Better to break the hood than the front element.
- Makes you look more like you know what you are doing and helps keep others from carelessly walking in front of you.
Cons:
- Will increase lens movement in windy situations, kind of like a sail on a boat.
- Takes up more room in your bag, even when reversed they still add to the diameter of the lens.
- People take more notice of you, will help to blow your cover if you are trying to keep a low profile.
What can you say? January 9, 2006
18 out of 25 found this review helpful
It's a 72mm lens hood, no vigneting, works great. A must for using EF28-135 outdoors.
Excellent for Outdoor Usage January 4, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I purchased the this lens hood with the matching lens just as a "best practice". I do believe it is worth the money and that a hood is appropriate in almost any condition.
GOOD
- eliminates all but the most powerful lens flare (i.e. pointing the camera at the sun)
- protects the lens somewhat
- durable and locks onto lens snugly
BAD
- makes lens even more bulky. I am struggling to find a bag which will accomodate my Digital Rebel XTI and a 28-135mm lens attached and equipped with this hood.
- the felt on the inside picks up fuzz. I don't know how Canon would fix this problem, but even being very careful you may notice flecks of lint and dust caught in the felt which lines the inside of the hood.
- the plastic on the outside quickly smudges with fingerprints.
This is just an FYI, not a bad point. If you use the built-in flash from a matching DSLR with this hood, you may very well get a nasty shadow. Using a higher quality flash which sits higher up on the camera eliminates this issue completely (in my experience).
 Canon User October 29, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This lens hood does it jobs as advertise. Many good points: Block light, Sturdy construction, felt liner for anti-reflect, look good, ...
One very bad point: If the Circular Polarized Filter is to use, then there is a serious problem to rotate the filter if this lens hood is attached.
Canon make this hood. Canon make the Circular Polarized Filter for this particular lens too. Canon did not think the combination of these two together in their design.
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