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[OM] Re: old hoods just fade away

Subject: [OM] Re: old hoods just fade away
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:18:42 -0400
A lot of people slag the clamp on hoods, but I like them for various 
reasons ... one of which is that some of them, such as the 50/35, 
reverse mount for elegant storage.  The OM is a stylin' camera.  Why not 
stylin' hood storage?

AG Schnozz wrote:

>So, Walt, have you tried that 21/2 on your E-1 yet?  I'm not too
>enamoured with the 24/2.8 on it, but the 35/2.8 is da bomb!
>
>Talking about hoods, when I got the new 24/2.8 from our former
>enabler-bar-none, he tossed in a genuine Olympus lensshade for
>the thing.  What grouses me about it is that you can't reverse
>mount the thing, nor can you use a lenscap with it.  However, I
>do use it on my 35/2.8 during a wedding/event shoot as it does a
>nice job of protecting the nose of the lens from encounters with
>hard objets.
>  
>



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