80-200 one touch - what Hood please ?

[david_sattar]

I have the older AF Nikkor 80-200mm 1:2.8 D, one ring focus/zoom, the hand-

holding version without a tripod mount, in the CL-43A case. As I recall this

lens came with a circular hood, not one of the ones with corner cutouts. (This

was 10+ years ago). The lens, with hood mounted, rolled off a table and landed

on the hood, which cracked so badly that it wouldn't reliably stay mounted.

Saved the lens though, which was undamaged.

 

Fast forward 10 years and I'm wanting to get a replacement hood, either the

original or one that vignettes less. I always thought that the lens when

mounted on a 35mm film body caused noticeable vignetting.

 

The manual is long gone, several moves ago and the lens, being discontinued,

isn't listed on the specs pages I've managed to find on Nikon websites. Can

anyone tell me please, what the original hood for this now discontinued lens

is ? I think it may have been an HB7... Alternatively, would anyone recommend

some other hood than the originally supplied one ?

 

The lens is now mounted on a D50 with a smaller imaging area, so vignetting of

the original hood probably won't be such an issue, given the smaller area

actually exposed.

 

Thanks for any info about the specified lens hood, or suggestions of

alternatives.

[mark_cooke]

Hi,

I have the 80-200 f2.8 af/d 2 touch with tripod collar an dthe hood is the HB-7. All you wil need to check for is to see whether your lens takes the bayonet mount HB-7 or one with a filter thread.

These are super lenses aren't they!

regards

Mark

[Michael R Freeman]

As Mark indicated, the correct bayonet (plastic) hood is the HB-7. You can also use the metal screw-in HN-28 hood if you want a sturdier hood, or one that will attach directly to a polarizer (makes them a lot easier to turn). I have the newer two-touch version of the 80~200/2.8D and actually prefer the metal HN-28, even though the plastic HB-7 is the recommended hood. The HB-7 is still available new from B&H I think. The HN-28 might be a bit harder to find new, although I occasionally see it offered on eBay.

 

With respect to vignetting, that was optical vignetting (light falloff in corners) that you saw before, and is unrelated to the hood you were using. As with most fast zooms (and a lot of slow ones as well) light falloff is evident at wider apertures with this Zoom-Nikkor. Only way to eliminate it is to stop down a bit (or mount it on a DX body).

[david_sattar]

Mark & Michael, thank you both for your most helpful responses, especially for confirming my fuzzy memoery about the bayonet HB-7 being the correct original spec hood. I do now have a polarizer mounted on this wonderful lens, so Michael's point about a screw-in HN-28 making it easier to turn a polariser is well taken, thanks for that. Decisions decisions... :-) Also thanks for the comment about the vignetting effect being a basic optical fact of life for the lens. I'll do some experiments photgraphing pure blue skies stopped down a bit.

 

Mark, you're so right about this being a wonderful lens :-) I probably have it on the camera only 50% of the time, but 90% of my 'keeper' photos have been taken with it.