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Subject: [OM] Re: old hoods just fade away
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:24:41 +0100
Mine's a clamp-on hood AndrewF old bean.  However, it is particularly  
difficult to use with polarising filters and I should prefer a screw- 
in one if I could find one.

Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko


On 14 Jul 2005, at 11:11, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> The 21 hood it a 'difficult' item but you may be lucky. It's a screw-
> in - any 49mm super-wide should work. I bought a 'Sonia' super-wide
> aluminium 55mm hood from a dealer in LA which is huge, for use on
> another lens (24/2) and his 49mm version of this should work well if
> modified - if the edge was shortened to suit and finished on a lathe.
> Might be easier and cheaper to use them as blanks rather than cut
> from block stock as they are already threaded and anodised. Careful
> work would leave only a silver cut edge which would delight some of
> the retro-troglodytes on this list.
>


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