LensCoat Hoodie Medium
- Product:
- Medium LensCoat Hoodie (company site)
- What’s Good:
- Protective, Cheap
- What’s Bad:
- Practical Use
When I ordered my Canon 70-200mm lens, the order also included a LensCoat Hoodie. The official description:
The LensCoat Hoodie helps protect the front element of your lens from dirt, dust, moisture and impact. The neoprene Hoodie fits easily and snugly around your lens hood or shade in either the shooting position or reversed. The Hoodie features a reinforced removable front element protection disc made from rigid plastic and firm foam to further protect your glass from damage. Great for travel and storing your lenses.
This is all true but I find adding and removing the Hoodie to be frustrating and usually requires two hands because of the elastic band that holds the Hoodie in place. It fits best over the lens hood in the shooting position and not so great reversed.
The LensCoat Hoodie sells for just under $15 so it is hard to complain about because it does provide the protection that it was designed to. However I do not travel with my lens hood attached or do I keep my lens exposed outside of a camera bag when not in use.
Recommended only if you want a lens cap that covers the entire lens hood (in the shooting position) for longer periods of time. The only difference I see between this and regular lens cap is that this will also keep dust from collecting inside of the lens hood.
Comments
George Slusher - March 27, 2008 6:22 am
I haven't tried the Hoodies, yet, but I do use the similar Op/Tech Hood Hat. It is a LOT faster to remove than reaching inside a lens hood to remove or replace a lens cap. I can remove the Hood Hat with one hand while not even looking at the camera. I keep the lens hood attached when carrying the camera outside the bag, as it provides a lot of protection from dings. One thing that I did find was that, if the lens/hood diameter is above the middle of the specified range, it's actually better to get the next larger size. It will go on and off much more easily and still stays on.