Adjustable lens hood recommendation for Bronica SQ tele lenses

[aldevo]

I'm in the process of assembling a Bronica SQ system.

About 99% of my photography is B&W and I often make use of B&W contrast filters. Many of the lenses in the Bronica SQ range have 67mm filter size but I ultimately intend to purchase a 50mm PS lens - which has a 77mm filter size. This fact coupled with the fairly extensive array of 77mm filters I already own courtesy of my Canon EOS system has suggested that I might be best served by using a 67mm - 77mm step-up ring for most Bronica SQ lenses.

The adjustable lens hoods I've seen cover 24mm - 210mm focal lengths with only three adjustable positions, so I suspect coverage of the longer focal lengths is a pretty poor sompromse.

Can anybody suggest suitable 77mm lens hoods to cover the 150mm - 200mm focal lengths? A single adjustable lens hood would be wonderful, but I need to avoid vignetting while getting suitable flare protection.

Thanks

 

[2F/2F]

Assuming you are shooting on a tripod with time to fiddle, it sounds like an adjustable bellows hood with the capability to take both square filters and a variety of filter ring adapters would be a good choice. You can use it on pretty much any camera too. I need to get one of these myself.

 

[paul_c5x4]

Bronica Professional lens hood - Covers 50mm to 250mm and has a slot for 3"/75mm square filters. They often appear on ebay, sometimes without an adaptor ring to fit on to the lens. Not a major problem as the Cokin P rings can be used. They are a little thinner than the genuine Bronica rings, but allow you to use the hood with a wider range of lenses.

 

[r-brian]

The Bronica Pro Hood works with the 50S thru 250mm lenses, but not with the 50PS since it is 77mm in diameter, not 67mm like all the other lenses. This is one reason I've kept my 50S lens. The Pro Hood came in handy when I had 5 lenses, but since downsizing to just 3 lenses and since I have the dedicated hood for the 80, which I can use on the 150, the Pro Hood gets no use. If you're interested in a Pro Hood contact me and maybe we can arrange something.

 

[aldevo]

I wound up changing my plans a bit.

Rather than wrestle with less than optimal less hoods I've decided to just use a 77mm to 67mm step down rings with my 77mm filters, when needed, and use dedicated Bronica lens hoods.

My camera won't look terribly, um, "elegant" with both a step-up and step-down ring - but I've no need to look terribly professional.

 

[rwboyer]

I wound up changing my plans a bit.

Rather than wrestle with less than optimal less hoods I've decided to just use a 77mm to 67mm step down rings with my 77mm filters, when needed, and use dedicated Bronica lens hoods.

My camera won't look terribly, um, "elegant" with both a step-up and step-down ring - but I've no need to look terribly professional.

I got sick of dealing with all of that crap for multiple camera/lens systems 20 years ago. My top choice would be a lee compendium hood and lee square/rectangular filters. You can pretty much adapt that setup to any camera and lens. You never need to buy two of the same filters again and never need to worry about hoods again - I even use it on everything from my 35mm to my 8x10.

RB

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

If you look on eBay there are some Chinese manufacturers of stackable metal lens hoods that are good for teles. They have front threads, so you can add as many as you need and they're inexpensive. B+W also makes such things at a considerably higher price. I'm sure the finish will be better, but at that point, you might as well consider a custom machined hood from S.K. Grimes.

 

[CBG]

... My top choice would be a lee compendium hood and lee square/rectangular filters. You can pretty much adapt that setup to any camera and lens. ...

Ditto.

Lee hoods are better. Way better than all but the best dedicated mfr's system hoods, and, unlike most of the dedicated system hoods, can easily be used with virtually every lens out there that benefits by a hood. Adding the new choices it brings for filter usage and the argument for other hoods gets hard to make.

If you have a bunch of different cameras and want to buy one premium hood to work with all of the lenses, Lee is a very good choice.