Why you should always fit a lens hood – and how to make your own, when necessary. Without a lens hood, the strong side lighting in this scene would have reached the front element of the lens and ...
A 5.6x standard zoom for Canon EF-S compatible cameras, which provides an angle of view equivalent to a 24-136mm lens on a 35mm camera, plus a 4-stop image stabiliser.
That and it's a lot cheaper to replace a lens hood than a front element.<BR><BR>I've dropped mine a few times on hikes and was glad to have them on mine. <BR><BR>I never saw a point to not using them ...