Do any of you use the Squarehood brand square hood on your Fuji lens? I ordered a JJC square hood for my Fuji 23/2.8 pancake lens, but when it arrived I found it did not work well when using a UV filter as the hood mounted on the outside of the filter which made it protrude further out than I liked..
I like the looks of the Squarehood brand square hood on the photo they show on their website mounted on the Fumi 23/2.8 pancake. However, I wonder about mounting a UV filter inside of the square hood. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I have the Squarehood hood for the Voigtlander 18/27 lenses. I really dislike the rubbery cap that I find very difficult to get back on correctly. I also don't like that it's a screw-on hood, but in the case of these lenses that's the only choice.
I personally don't use UV filters. IMO if you're using a hood you probably don't need the UV filter at all since the hood helps protect from incidental bumps but YMMV.
Squarehoods can be great, and can make your lens bigger, and they don't reverse. And these pancake ones are $77 (US) and that is pretty steep, and more so when their site doesn't tell you if it is metal, or plastic (because it matters).
And you can't use some filters with them, like a CP, you can forget, and you can't just twist the hood off and slap the CP on.
But, the pinch cap for the end of them is better than the friction slide on type of cap that I have seen. Like the Fuji 27mm f/2.8 slide on cap to go over their round weird shrinking filter is a joke.
RWNPhoto wrote:
But, the pinch cap for the end of them is better than the friction slide on type of cap that I have seen. Like the Fuji 27mm f/2.8 slide on cap to go over their round weird shrinking filter is a joke.
Yes, those slide-on Fujifilm caps for their rectangular hoods are not good at all. I’ve lost several for the 24mm f/1.4 and the 23mm f/1.3. The 27mm f/1.8 has a great little (round) hood, but it also uses a slide-on cap that eventually stretches and will come off too easily. (I bought several of them so that I can carry a spare when I travel.)
rbf_ wrote:
I think I've lost all the rubber square caps I've had as well. The 18/2, 23/1.4 and 35/1.4 all had them
Same.
I love the concept, since I like the square hoods for street photography, but the execution is not good at all. (I’ve found that I can manage to squeeze the regular lens cap onto the lens inside these hoods, though it is awkward.
I really like Haoge's updated square hoods with the round press on caps. The caps are felt-lined and fit on snuggly, then come off with a slight twist. Never lost one yet. And the hoods attach very tightly to the bayonet mounts. I have those hoods for my 35 f1.4, 56 f1.2 WR and 23 f1.4 WR. Not cheap, but all metal (except for the bayonet mount ring) and very well made.
The squarehood square hood for my Fuji 23 2.8 pancake lens came today. I have decided to send it back as I prefer the simple round OEM lens shade on the pancake lens. I thought I would like the squarehood, but don't.
gaopa wrote:
The squarehood square hood for my Fuji 23 2.8 pancake lens came today. I have decided to send it back as I prefer the simple round OEM lens shade on the pancake lens. I thought I would like the squarehood, but don't.
gaopa wrote:
The squarehood square hood for my Fuji 23 2.8 pancake lens came today. I have decided to send it back as I prefer the simple round OEM lens shade on the pancake lens. I thought I would like the squarehood, but don't.
One of the things I like about the 27mm f/2.8 — and I think it is the same on the 23mm f/2.8 — is how small that little round hood is. I barely realize that it is on the lens.
I like the "square " (actually rectangular) hood on my 35mm f/1.4, and I keep it on the lens almost all the time, despite having lost the cap and now attaching the regular lens cap inside the hood. (Tricky but you can do it.)
I liked the "square" hood on the old 23mm f/1.4… but I lost the push-on cap for than one, too, and the hood is relatively large. I’ve gone back to generally shooting it without the hood, and only attaching it when I think conditions warrant.
gaopa wrote:
Do any of you use the Squarehood brand square hood on your Fuji lens? I ordered a JJC square hood for my Fuji 23/2.8 pancake lens, but when it arrived I found it did not work well when using a UV filter as the hood mounted on the outside of the filter which made it protrude further out than I liked..
I like the looks of the Squarehood brand square hood on the photo they show on their website mounted on the Fumi 23/2.8 pancake. However, I wonder about mounting a UV filter inside of the square hood. Thanks for sharing your experience....Show more →
The metal hood that comes with the Fuji 27mm f2.8 can accept a UV filter internally. You have to unscrew the hood from the attached mount with the small screwdriver that comes with it. A UV filter can then be screwed into the mounting ring and the hood reassembled.
Geoff wrote "The metal hood that comes with the Fuji 27mm f2.8 can accept a UV filter internally. You have to unscrew the hood from the attached mount with the small screwdriver that comes with it. A UV filter can then be screwed into the mounting ring and the hood reassembled."
Thanks, Geoff.
I have had a most interesting 24 hrs with Squarehood's owner, Thomas Hansell, in Sweden. It turns out that the hood I was sent for my Fuji 23/2.8 did not have the TINY screws installed on the hood. Trying as hard as I could, I could not get them installed. I reached out to Squarehood and Thomas responded quickly saying the screws should have been installed and that all I would need to do is put the hood on the lens and tighten the screws.My hood slipped by someones inspection.
Thomas is replacing my hood and I have sent the one I got yesterday back to NJ from the place where they are shipped. I'm going to give the hood a try on my lens and see if I like it. The hood is metal and has a nice hard plastic snap on cover.
In the meantime, I want to say that Squarehood has EXCELLENT customer service. Thanks, Thomas!
Personally I like Haoge’s latest hood for the XF 23mm f/2.8 R WR which I believe also works on the XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR. I bought it in black and what is unique is that it is sized to accept 49mm filters inside the hood instead of the 39mm built in lens thread. I have a lot of their hoods for Fuji, Sony, and Canon lenses. They are not cheap but are only about 55% of the cost of the SquareHood ones.
Haoge Metal Squaret Lens Hood for Fujifilm X-E5 & XF 23mm f2.8 Set Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 R WR Lense 39mm Screw-in Hood Black,with Metal Cap, on XE5 Camera Body Kit https://a.co/d/04aQeUGv
Geoff D F wrote:
The metal hood that comes with the Fuji 27mm f2.8 can accept a UV filter internally. You have to unscrew the hood from the attached mount with the small screwdriver that comes with it. A UV filter can then be screwed into the mounting ring and the hood reassembled.
The Squarehood mounting seems way too complicated. You need a separate mounting ring and a screwdriver to loosen 2 tiny screws attaching the hood to the ring (screws were missing with @gaopa order) and then mount the filter under the hood and rescrew the hood in place? If you want to change the filter you have to go through this again? I use ND's and a circular polarizer a lot, sometimes together, so this mounting system would not work for me as I could see myself losing the tiny screws while making filter changes in the field.
I like the Haoge square hood much better, the one for my 23 & 35 f2 silver Fujicrons, #LH-X35S (same hood for both stock photo below) attaches with a simple quarter twist via the lens bayonet mount. No mounting ring, screwdriver or tiny screws needed You can use the standard Fujifilm pinch cap for protection and easy to change filters as you don't have to take the Hood off, but you can with a simple quarter twist. Plus it only cost $32 for my metal silver square version and it matches the lens finish exactly. Haoge also has a vented round metal hood that mounts the same way, it's $25.
SpecFoto wrote:
I like the Haoge square hood much better, the one for my 23 & 35 f2 silver Fujicrons, #LH-X35S same hood for both (stock photo below) attaches with a simple quarter twist via the lens bayonet mount. No mounting ring, screwdriver or tiny screws needed You can use the standard Fujifilm pinch cap for protection and easy to change filters as you don't have to take the Hood off, but you can with a simple quarter twist. Plus it only cost $32 for my metal silver square version and it matches the lens finish exactly. Haoge also has a vented round metal hood that mounts the same way, it's $25.
Yeah, that is what I have on those same Fujicrons, in black. Works great, and uses a normal Fuji cap, unless you want different. Problem is, I haven't seen anything like that design for the 23 or 27mm pancakes. The design is different, so they need to screw on. Not sure why someone doesn't make that same thing with threads on the end.
Maybe because all the lenses threads are not exactly the same, so threading the rectangular one on would end up being misaligned. So then you have to adjust and tighten, and that be why the Squarehood (weird name of rectangular) ones and similar designs have the adapter and screws to tighten.
The square design style bugs me because when it is in place, the lens isn't a pancake anymore, not easy to get back to a pancake, so you might as well have a Fujicron or the 1.4 version of that lens (23mm anyway)
The Haoge hood that @swldstn linked above (post 17) is a screw on type for the 23/27 f2.8 lenses and it seems to align horizontally, as shown in their video. And it allows you to change filters by screwing off the hood, a better design than Squarehood with the tiny screws imho.
You can use the standard Fujifilm pinch cap for protection and easy to change filters as you don't have to take the Hood off, but you can with a simple quarter twist. Plus it only cost $32 for my metal silver square version and it matches the lens finish exactly. Haoge also has a vented round metal hood that mounts the same way, it's $25.