17-40L lens hood for 1.6 crop.

[phil vaughan - yorkshire u]

I remember reading here, probably more than once, that there's a

smaller lens hood that will fit the 17-40 providing better shading

but without vignetting on a 1.6 crop DSLR. I've done a search and

came up with nothing.

 

PLease help, I know that there's someone out there that knows.

[fxdonny]

It's the hood for Canon 24/1.4 L lens, EW-83D or EW-83DII.

[lotsawa]

Here is the <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00A51P">link</a>.

[rintintin]

If you use the lens often, the replacement hood is worth the annoying amount of money Canon charges for one of their hoods. I don't know about the better shading, but:

 

<ul>

<li>the lens with the hood reversed fits in bags & pouches much easier

<li>the deeper cutouts allow easier access to polarizers, lens hoods, etc.

</ul>

 

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Read <a href="http://burren.cx/photo/ew83d.html">all about it here.</a>

[hkbmac]

I got mine on eBay for about 1/2 of Canon's price.

[phil vaughan - yorkshire u]

Thanks guys, very prompt.

[robin_sibson1]

I have been using the 17~40 on my 20D with the EW-83DII hood. Works fine, much neater and almost certainly more effective than the standard EW-83E (which you can recycle to the 10~22 when you get one ...!). As pointed out, the only problem is that the EW-83DII is one of the sillier-priced Canon hoods.

[ho_ho]

I've tried on my ancient RT and found no dark corners! Anyone who got a 1Ds(MkII) should have a trial and let us know the result.