On Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:40:00 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

>Is there such a thing as a lens hood that is about 4" deep yet wide
>enough for a 28-70 f/2.8 zoom? (72mm dia filter). At 28 mm, the
>horizontal image is 75° wide.
>
>This works out to a lens hood that is about 9" at the far end! (eg: 3"
>for the lens, and 3 in. each side to cover 37.5° (at 4" deep).
>
>I like shooting at near right angles (or less) to light sources. The
>lens hood (if you can call it that) supplied with the Maxxum 28-70 f/2.8
>is a bit of a laugh (very shallow) ... to the point of not even
>protecting the glass from the odd bump...

If the lens can take a screw-in step-up ring
without vignetting, you can make and attach
big shades cut from flexible plastic
refrigerator dishes, sprayed black in the
inside (you may want to make it press-fit on
the outside of the current shade, instead of
using the step-up ring for attachment...).
I made one of these to keep side light away
from the big front of a Nikkor 15mm f5.6,
and it works well...