Why you should always fit a lens hood – and how to make your own, when necessary. Without a lens hood, the strong side lighting in this scene would have reached the front element of the lens and ...

Lens hoods help to prevent stray light from entering the lens to create flare. They vary in size and shape and are usually short and rectangular or petal-shaped for wide angle lenses. Ultra wide angle ...

Lens hoods can have a dramatic effect on the amount of light that gets into an image. Let's look at a few situations where having a lens filter can really help you out. The main and most prominent use ...

The Fujifilm camera ' GFX100RF ' equipped with a 120-megapixel large-format sensor was released on April 10, 2025. The GFX100RF is GFX's first lens-integrated camera, and is lightweight at 735g, which ...

Lens hoods are worth having. I match each of mine up with one of these " hood hats " and ditch my lens cap.<BR><BR>The optical benefits are noticable in some situations.