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Hood keeps falling off
Rob Dicker, Photographer
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Lake Villa | IL | USA | Posted: 4:01 PM on 06.23.10 |
| ->> Hi. The OEM hood for my Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR lens keeps falling off. Yesterday it fell off while I was walking through some grass, so I didn't hear it hit the ground. luckily, I was able to find it after I saw it was missing. Other than using gaffer's tape, does anyone have any suggestions? Is there another brand that stays on better? |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 4:05 PM on 06.23.10 |
| ->> the "expensive" black cloth gaffers tape. roberts sells it in smaller rolls. or use something that will cause the lens to have more "grip" around the lens. I have found the lens hood for ALL the 70-200's to be pain's in the arse. I never use them.....plus the damn things are huge....better left at home. |
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Max Simbron, Photographer, Assistant
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 4:14 PM on 06.23.10 |
->> I leave a long piece of gaffer, with one edge folded on itself to make a small tab, on the 70-200 hood. Whenever I put the hood on, I just pull the gaffer and apply it over both the hood and the mount. A piece will last a few months before the edges curl, then I just do it again.
I do this anytime I'm walking on a field or area where my hood falling off would be an issue, more so than just losing a hood. |
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Andy Bronson, Photographer
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Bellingham | WA | USA | Posted: 4:48 PM on 06.23.10 |
->> Rob,
check to see if you chipped off some of the plastic on lens end of the shade. That's why mine keeps falling off. |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 4:53 PM on 06.23.10 |
->> 77mm Mamiya rubber lens hood.
What we use because of the NBA rule. |
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Greg Francis, Photographer
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Rochester | NY | USA | Posted: 7:52 PM on 06.23.10 |
->> Wrap the bayonet thread with plumbers teflon tape two times-around then twist the hood on.
Works really well on my 20-35 hood. |
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Guy Rhodes, Photographer
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East Chicago | IN | USA | Posted: 4:17 AM on 06.25.10 |
->> Rather than taping your lens hoods while they're already attached, try wrapping a piece of gaff across your lens hood "threads" before you twist it into place. You'll have to force the hood to twist on, but the added bulk of the gaff tape in there will stop the hood from rotating off.
I discovered this by accident after some tape that was on my hood the old way got pulled into the "threads" one day while twisting the lens hood on. It does no damage and results in a much tighter fit. |
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Corey Perrine, Photographer
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Natthawat Wongrat, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Bangkok | Bangkok | Thailand | Posted: 10:27 AM on 06.25.10 |
->> Don't forget to put your contact info on the lens hood.
I lost mine while covering a news event and another journalist picked it up and returned it to me. |
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Jonathan Castner, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 11:18 AM on 06.25.10 |
| ->> Put a tiny line of Super Glue on to the raised tab on the inside of your hood. That is the part that gets worn and looses firm grip with the lens. Just a light smear and the hood will grip nicely again. Been doing this to all my bayonet hoods for years. The glue fix lasts for months and no tape ever again. |
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David Minton, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Denton | TX | USA | Posted: 10:05 PM on 06.25.10 |
->> I'm having the same problem with the same lens. But it's not the hood.
The plastic channel that the bayonet mount of the hood is supposed to lock into is broken, leaving nothing to hold the tab on the hood in place. The front wall of the channel is totally gone, so the tab in the hood just slides out and off it falls.
The hoods for all our company 70-200s have at least one broken tab. Bad design. Most of them that I've seen have a broken tab, and they all have just sheared off. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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| | | Posted: 10:11 PM on 06.25.10 |
->> Rob,
This wouldn't be a SportsShooter thread if I didn't say this ...wait for it ...
...get a Canon :0)
No seriously, look at the Nikon HN-28 hood that was included in the original Nikkor 80-200f2.8 back when ... oh man back when I can't even remember when, I'm pretty sure I had one in '93. I often have the same lens hood on my current Canon 70-200f2.8 (and the same hood has been on nearly every 80-200f2.8/70-200f2.8 lenses in my career).
You want a non-rigid hood the Mamiya hoods seem to do they trick for a flexible rubber hood. |
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Jon Cunningham, Photographer
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Lisle | IL | USA | Posted: 11:04 PM on 06.25.10 |
| ->> I agree that the 77mm Mamiya hood is best, but before getting one, I used to coat the surfaces of the lens and hood (where they meet) with clear fingernail polish. Snugged everything up like new, but needed recoating about once a month. |
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Nik Habicht, Photographer
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Levittown | PA | USA | Posted: 9:31 AM on 06.26.10 |
| ->> I found that by leaving hoods installed, I avoided most of the wear and tear that came with removing and reversing them. Off course that required more bags/pouches in my trunk and on my waist belt..... |
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