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Can anyone help me along the road to enlightenment?

I'm the happy owner of the 17-40L lens, this comes with the EW-83E hood, popular suggestion would have me belive that this hood is not suited to this lens when used on a camera with a 1.6 crop, namely the 20D.

Can anyone offer resoning for this and suggest a hood that will work on such a set up before i go :nut:
 
The reasoning is that the full field of view is somewhat restricted due to the crop factor thus the supplied hood unless being used on a full frame camera is useless.

I am led to believe that some people have sourced longer alternative hoods of a different Canon lens (my memory is not great here but it could possibly be the 28-75L lens) I would expect to pay a tidy sum for such an accessory.

I would pop down to Jessops and look at the range of rubber add on hoods as they can be folded back or cut to the correct length..also they will cost a lot less than an "L" lens hood for sure.
 
I might well look at the rubber hoods you mention, but i'd rather have a pukka Canon item to add to the display case as it were :D

I can't remember for the life of me where it was i read about this...... the search begins :nunu:
 
I have a Hoya rubber hood that can be folded back, great quality. I reckon rubber is your best bet.
 
Dont get too close to big cat cages though ;)

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With a little help from milou, it would appear that the hood i'm after is the Canon EW-83D II

just need to source one now for a reasonable price :)
 
Cheers for the ebay links.

I just need to set up an ebay account now......:coat:
 
damn slacker!

If you want to do what we did last time Brian, im on MSN!
 
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