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Play while you read: “Hoodie” - Lady Sovereign

From my divine vantage overlooking the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica I see them all.

Tourists. Camera-toting tourists. And, more and more I see them with cheap SLRs with curious appendages:

Lens hoods!

I mean lens hoods are great accessories that prevent lensflare in relatively rare occasions. Yes, they also afford some protection for the front of your lens.  I, too,  used to obsess about rocking a hood one-hundred percent of the time. In my youth.  Now, I might or might not.  It just adds bulk and weight and precious seconds while I attach or flip.  More and more, I just can’t be arsed with a lens hood.  Somehow, though, I’m doubting that most of these tourists are worried about lensflare in their vacation snaps.  No, the real reason I think I’m seeing a veritable explosion in lens hoods among the monied amateur — and yes part of why I used to be so diligent in using one:

They look pretty badass!