I use a lens hood on all my lenses at all times. Lens hoods have saved me from damaging lenses on more than a few occasions. They offer great impact protection that a UV filter does not. Smack a corner of your lens on something hard with just a filter in place - good luck unscrewing that filter/magnetic adapter. I don't shoot helicopters, most of my work is studio and some urban. Horses for courses.

I live in Miami FL where the sun is bright all year around and yes the Lens hood DOES make a noticeable difference in Image quality! I have photos with and without the hood and u can clearly see the difference in contrast!

lens hoods are my default just for protection. I was at a recent event, with lots of people moving about. It would have been easy for someone have accidentally hit the front of my lens in theory. with a lens hood, that is impossible. I also find that it looks more "professional" I was one of the official photographers for this event and with the lens hood, I feel people treat you differently and are more willing to be photographed/interacted with. You aren't a stranger with a camera, you are photographer for the event. Now the added benefits of lens flare and stuff is just handy

Just the video I was looking for!

Really helpful as always! Always enjoying watching your content.

That “back reflection” of the headlight is actually caused by the filter you’re using over the lens, it would absolutely not be there if you took the same shot with no filter.

Would love for you to make a video reviewing some of the filters such as PMK's filter and others compare value and such.

first time watching your long form content 😂 so weird seeing you in a horizontal video

Thank you bro

I don’t use UV filters just because of possible focusing issues. However, I use them when I’m at places such as a shooting range. All kinds of debris are flying around, such as bullet casings. The UV filter has saved my lens a time or two.

“Always use protection”

Anthony please review the Canon R8 in depth🙏🏾

I am only a hobby photographer, and I use the Lens hood also for protection.

H&Y RevoRing + RevoRing lens hood. Solves almost all of your problems (variable thread size)

Are you team lens hood, or team no lens hood?

I find it helpful when it rains :P... and sometimes on the 70-200...

I use them for video.

I have one on my 24-105 but I don’t think I’ve ever actually used it

I saw in your lens filter that you can't attach a len cap and I kind of suprised. I have never stumbled that before, I always could connect the lens cap without even notice

Still waiting for a dji air 3 review video .

Tldr: yes they do

3x the hood literally saved my Sony G Fe 24-105 f4, well it still dented a bit but no way it would've survived without the hood - best $30 protection you can get. Not to mention it's niceto be able to set the cam down w/o putting the lens cap on or worry about much touching the lens directly.

2:53 "grab your hand" 🤨

i only use uv protection and no lens cap.

🎉naked .Thank You

thank god i am using my lens hood when i accidentally bang my lens on an iron gate.

Always lens hood

filters dont really offer protection they are less resilient glass then your lens glass to begin with

I just use a lens hood to look cooler 😎

I almost always use a lens hood with a UV filter.. and have since 1985, lol..

I'm 97% lens hood. But when I use a VND Filter it is usually too big to place a hood over it. Lame. Lol

I've ALWAYS used lens hoods for all my shoots over 18 years - I've NEVER used a UV filter for protection. None of my lenses ever had a scratch and I don't have to deal with image degradation from a UV filter. Even at 5:04 I can see a loss in sharpness with the Polar Pro filter... and it will get worse when you have lens flare situations and in lower light. Lens hoods come with the lens and can give better image quality by potentially reducing flares (better contrast in side lit situations). UV filters cost extra $$$ and they degrade IQ potentially, potentially increasing flares (lowering sharpness) , especially in low light.

Attributing glare/flare to light reflected off the sensor is extremely naive. And you need to distinguish glare from flare. Glare is when your image becomes hazy all over and this reduces contrast as well as reduces colour or saturation. This simply happens at transitions or lens element surfaces. Note that a simple single lens element, like a magnifying glass, has four surface transitions (if we ignore the side walls of the cylinder it was conceptually cut from). When glass elements aren't coated, this places an upper limit to the number of elements usable in a lens. When Dr. Paul Rudolph designed the Planar lens (a "double Gaussian") of 6 elements just before 1900, that was a great design. But with 6 elements, it became only usable properly in the 1950s when lens coatings reduced the glare. Glare is exacerbated by backlight, but always present and the quality of lens coatings determines how much we suffer from it. Glare also contributes to light losses that happen in any lens and this is expressed in the T-value that gives light transmission. The number in f/number only gives the geometric relation between focal length and diameter of entry pupil. Look for a Canon 1.2L lens in DxOMark and you'll see a T-value of 1.5. Then look for a Nikon 1.4G and you'll also see a T-value of 1.5. This means both are equally "fast" and one of these has better coatings. Flare is when you have recognisable shapes in your image, like sun trails, aperture shape trails, etc. In the 1970s, with the coatings of the time, 7 elements would be about the maximum usable. Some zoomlenses had more, but these were "soft". Not a problem with low-res small movie formats, or low-res print publications, but an issue everywhere else. Today, Nikon's Z 58/0.95 S Noct lens has 17 elements in 10 groups with excellent contrast and sharpness. A source of optical glare issue can be between the sensor and the OLPF, in backlight, if the angle of incidence is unfortunate. Light can get stuck in resonation between the back of the OLPF and front of the sensor and depending on the distance between the two, you'll have a colour cast all over your image that is hard to remove. Lens hoods got introduced to prevent glare from light sources that came in from the side of the lens as such light could give a lot of glare. Today's coatings will suppress that a lot, but you could experiment taking test shots with a strong focused torch feathering over the lens at different angles, to see what the effect is and if/when you need the lens hood. If the hood does nothing optically, then it still is a protection against mechanical damage.

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I dont use one because it takes too mutch space on my backpack and I'm lazy, might regret it one day 😅

I just wasted 9:26 minutes but I like your passion so it’s ok LOL ! Like I know all this information already 😂

i use them because it looks better lmao

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As a full-time professional commercial photographer, I never use lens hood for work. They are just extra baggage. When I’m shooting personally or for fun, I never not use a Lens hood. And that’s just for the extra protection they offer the lens

Instead of a lens hood why not buy a ND Filter instead? i use an ND/Polarizer. it’s a 2 in 1.

I don’t think I’ve ever used a lens hood…

This is why i love universal standards. Absolute clusterfuck