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Unpopular opinion: I think the old-school rubberized lens hoods from the 80s are actually better for impact protection than modern plastic ones.
After a client brought in a vintage Nikon with a cracked plastic hood but a perfectly intact rubber one from the same era, I started checking all my repair logs from the past 6 months and found zero rubber hoods needed replacement, while I'd fixed 14 plastic ones.
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black.laura5d ago
Wait, are you sure it's the rubber itself? I've seen those old hoods survive because they're often a thin rubber sleeve over a plastic core. The rubber just bends on impact instead of cracking. A solid rubber hood would be too heavy and floppy. The real test would be comparing a modern plastic hood to an old all-plastic one from that era.
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Hold up, you’ve been tracking this for six months? That’s wild.
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