Finally, I got myself a lens hood for the wide angle lens adapter WD-H43. I recently bought the Canon XH-A1 and the WD-H72 Wide Angle lens adapter. So this is the original lens hood from the XH-A1. It's a little loose, so I put a doubleside tape around. Then it fits really tight with the screw on the lower left of the hood.

Sweet! Is there a part number listed on it? I wonder if Canon sells it as a spare for the XH-A1. :-)

I looked around the lens hood itself as well as on the manual, there isn't a part number associated with the lends hood. Too bad!

To order this Lens hood from Canon US, call

Canon Parts Department 866-481-2569
XH-A1 Lens Hood Part# D52-0320-000
$17.91 + $6 shipping + local tax

I looks like you've installed the hood flush with the edge of the lens. How do you protect the lens in this configuration? Is there a large rectangular cap available to cover the hood opening?

I've left about 2-3 mm of my lens protruding through the inner ring of the hood so that I can attach the OEM lens cap. Can't say I'm crazy about the setup (not that it's awful or anything) but I want the lens protected when not actively shooting.

Anthony

I use the lens cover come from WD-H43. It fits on the lens hood. I also have the lens hood for sell http://lacolorshop.com/products/item.asp?id=a1hood

How do you protect the lens in this configuration?

I'm pleased to see that a wide-angle converter at last has a 16:9 aspect ratio hood. Noticed how many cameramen are still using 4:3 hoods on their wideangles in this day and age?

One way round the protection dilemma Anthony is to not go the Canon route but to get the Z1 / FX1 hood - that way you get shutters built in and a proper 16:9 mask rather than Canon's rather radiused so-so aspect ratio.

tom.

Would you happen to know the part number for the Sony hood you suggest Tom? I'd really prefer barn doors!

I have a V1U and tried the original hood as well as the wide-angle adapter hood (from the Sony V1U on to the HV40) but neither worked.

Is the hood you refer to from the Z1 the one from the original lens? The part number for the one for the FX1 is 218643003 but I don't know if it's available.

The FX1 and the Z1 share the same hood, and it comes with the camera. Don't know the part number, but do know it's available separately.

Thanks Tom. That Sony part number I referenced would be it then. I just ordered it!

On a related note, I may have that Canon hood available for sale soon! :-)

Anthony

Oops - the Sony hood is far far more complex than the Canon hood, being made up of just under thirty parts (how do they compete with Canon's simplistic hood on a commercial basis?)

As such should it vignette your image (after all it's designed for a pretty feeble 32 mm wide-angle equivalent) then hacking it into a petal hood will leave it looking more of a mess than you may like.

Look what my colleague Nick did to his Z1 hood to accommodate the best wide-angle you can get:

Z1-Aspheron4 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://tinyurl.com/mtchov)

tom.

Okay, hold the phone. Are you saying that the Sony lens hood is possibly NOT suitable for the WD-H43???? A refund will not be possible but I CAN cancel the order if I do so QUICKLY!

Of course I'm saying that - nothing's for sure until it's tried and tested - just like a brand new Mini DV tape.

I took your suggestion as another viable option for a hood over the Canon one discussed in this thread and used by others. If the diameters match up then I'll consider that to be a suitable solution until I have it in hand and discover otherwise.

The filter diameter for the Z1 is 72, the lens cap for the WD-H43 is 74.5. That sounds like it should work out, no?

I am looking at a Z1 right now, I think you would be better off with the Canon hood. The shutters on the Z1/FX1 hood would certainly protect the front of the WA adaptor, but they would surely make the adaptors use worthless, when open. The shutters, or more to the point, the 16.9 mask would encroach to a great degree on the top and bottom of the adaptor. The Canon hood would not suffer from this as it is round, with no mask.

The Z1 lens hood arrived. Great news! With the help of 1 strip of electrical tape as a spacer, the Z1 lens hood fits on the HV40 wide angle adapter excellently. The barn doors work like a charm in protecting the lens. There is absolutely NO vignetting as long as the hood is applied correctly. And it looks AMAZING! Sort of like a mini-version of my V1U!

Thanks so much!

Anthony

Excellent Anthony, excellent. Remember that your Canon's v'finders are showing you the image overscanned, so there could still be image vignetting. Worth importing some footage into your NLE, as that shows you the entire frame.

tom.

Good tip. I did import into FCP just to make sure prior to posting. A-okay!

A

The Z1 lens hood arrived. Great news! With the help of 1 strip of electrical tape as a spacer, the Z1 lens hood fits on the HV40 wide angle adapter excellently. The barn doors work like a charm in protecting the lens. There is absolutely NO vignetting as long as the hood is applied correctly. And it looks AMAZING! Sort of like a mini-version of my V1U!

Thanks so much!

Anthony

Would you mind posting pictures of the rig with the Z1 hood on it?

Here you go.

Good mod to the HV Anthony, but you can see from your front-on shot how Sony have compromised the hoods efficiency so that it can contain the barn doors shutter mechanism.

If you get hold of a VX2k's hood you'll see the excellent way Sony have shadowed the hood's interior by having a 4:3 mask right at the front, so making the interior of the hood not only matt black but also very often in shadow (so probably 4 stops darker).

Just look at the hood's shutter doors in your photo. Their inclusion means the shadow from the 16:9 mask has disappeared, and to add insult to inefficiency, look at the reflections off the far2shiny shutter blades themselves. The lower one is almost acting as a light diverter, bouncing skylight up onto the front element.

The Z5's hood is slightly improved in that it uses a much matter surface texture to the shutter.

Still, you've done the right thing. What's the vignetting situation like? I ask because the Z1's hood is designed for the much wider wideangle view of the Sony lens.

tom.

As long as the hood is attached perfectly level there is absolutely no vignetting.

Aside from door construct and degree of gloss, how does the Z5 hood differ from the Z1 hood? Would anyone know the part number for the Z5 hood?