Fotasy Metal 43mm Lens Hood, 43mm Lens Hood for Canon Fuji Leica Leitz Nikon Olympus Panasonic Pentax Sony Lens

Another good product from Fotasy. Hood was well made, solid, and it fits well.

I bought both 55-mm (for Contax RTS) and 49-mm lens hoods (for Pentax KM) and this review is written for Pentax camera. The solid metal hood (0.6 oz) fits my vintage 50-mm manual prime lens well (filter size 49-mm) and the center pinch cap (0.4 oz) sits on the hood nicely due to the cap-receiving groove inside the front end of the hood. The original lens cap can be stored away as long as the hood and the hood cap stay on the camera. The cap does not allow the light coming through the lens so that it helps certain vintage manual cameras (e.g. Pentax KM camera) to prevent the camera battery drainage issue that occurs when the cap is not on. The black string (12 inches or longer depending on the hood size) that came with the cap is for keeping the hood cap to be attached to the camera strap ring so that we don’t lose it when it is taken off the hood. The way I use it is as follows (see the pictures): (1) Fold the string into a loop shape and tie the two loose ends first. (2) Pass the loop end through the cap hole situated at one side of the cap margin starting from the front side of the hole and pass the tied end through it... (3) Likewise, pass the tied end through the camera strap ring on the body and pull it further out to make a loop large enough to receive the cap through it. By doing so, when the string is not needed it can be easily freed from the cap or the strap ring by reversing the looping action.

Great for smaller size lense Easy to put on and remove

Nicely made, easy thread. I bought this to use on a 18-50mm APSC lens with a stepup ring and single 67mm filter. Unfortunately there is significant vignetting at the low end of the zoom range. It still gets 4 stars as it is a quality metal hood and the included lens cap is well made.

works great solid build this will protect your lens 100%