>I keep reading this over and over on newsgroups, but the main purpose of a
>lens hood (lens shade) is to cast a shadow over the front element and/or
>filter and when you turn the camera towards the sun, this shadow disappears,
>rendering the lens hood useless! You'd be better off with a strategically
>placed tree.
Not quite true. There is still a lot of incidental light coming in that
reduces image contrast slightly. It's the reason studio photographers often
use large gobos (solid panels) to block off most of a scene just out of the
image area. Same thing applies outside.
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