Photographers: How To Be An Instant Badass
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:
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!
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Tags:lensflare, lenshood, santamonica
This entry was posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
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Its true. I am using my hoods less and less these days. The hood on the 24-70Lis a monster, and it scares people.
@norbs: Stop bragging about your 24-70L!!