Re: Canon 100mm Macro lens

"Garry Douglas" <garry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dudley Simons" <drs1005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Capture Boy wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me if the Canon 100mm MACRO lens comes with a lens
hood 
>>> as
>>> standard, or does it cost extra.
>>>
>>> Many Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Doesn't the Canon 100mm macro have a recessed front element like the 
>> Sigma macros?  That being the case you don't actually need a lens hood
as 
>> the lens barrel does the job quite nicely.  The other thing is that if 
>> you are using the lens at closest focus you may have issues with a lens

>> hood shading the object being photographed - depending on how its being

>> lit obviously
>>
>> Hop ethis helps
>
> Good points. Also I tend to use my 100/2.8 with a MacroLite3 (at least I

> did before upgrading to a 350D rendered it useless) so a hood was never
an 
> issue.
>
> Garry
>

HI chaps.

I borrowed a Canon 100mm macro and the front element was not as recessed
as 
the 105mm Sigma that I used to use.

If I'd kept the Canon macro then, yes, I would have bought a lens hood.

Catch with the hood is that it may get in the way of an on-camera flash
(but 
so might the actual body of the lens).

Regards,  Ian.