collapsable/rubber/3rd stage rubber hood.

Fellow photographers,

 

I am looking into buying a hood for my Nikon D60 (stock) and found a collapsible/3rd stage/rubber hood. My

question and

concern is: Would it affect the automatic focusing function since the hood is extremely wide.? The description

stated this:

 

It is a high quality Collapsible screw mount lens hood, made by high quality rubber. We are guarantee that the

quality of such hood is very great.

 

>>>Feature:

 

>>>Durable: It is not easy broken, as it is collapsible.

 

>>>Adjustable: It have 3 different length of the hood for your select, (wide ; normal ; tele)

 

>>>Convenience: It is very portable , as it is not a hard lens hood. you can keep the hood easily by collapse the

hood at the >>>smallest size.

 

>>>Allow attach the lens cap too after install this hood or filter.

 

 

 

 

All answer, comments, and opinions are welcomed. Thank you!

Your list of attributes sounds like you're selling them yourself! :>)

 

The question is: what lens are you putting this hood on? Lens hoods made specifically for a lens are designed to work without impeding the field of view, auto focus, etc.

 

For the most part, a 3rd party, rubber hood will work just fine on most lenses. I have several for my prime lenses, and generic rubber lenses can be found that will fit the full gamut of lenses.

 

One great advantage to these rubber hoods are they are relatively inexpensive, and I've lost a few without denting the pocketbook too much. They also provide a pad of protection when collapsed.

If you have the stock 18-55 lens, why not just buy the Nikon hood designed for it HB-45 (~$16).

I have a folding rubber hood for my Minolta Hi-Matic 7s. It always gave a little

vignetting when fully extended. After years of use it tore off at the fold and solved

the vignetting problem ,ha !

All my Nikkors have their proper metal hoods.

 

/Clay

I have a couple of these as well. The big thing I have against them is that (contrary to your statement) are rather big

and bulky. It makes fitting the camera into any sort of fitted case impossible. Also they tend to be less durable than

you think -- being just a piece of rubber glued to a plastic ring. Any sort of pressure can cause the two pieces to

separate.

 

Nothing beats a proper custom reversible hood if it is available for the lens (the lenses I use them for are old and

custom hoods were no longer available when I looked)

i have one on my 70-300 ED. it's actually more convenient than the hood that came with the lens, plus its retractable.