I Lost my LENS HOOD!?!?!?

Woodyg3

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Out shooting with my 500mm PF yesterday and as I was about to get in the car and go home I saw that my lens hood was missing. This is a big cylinder of plastic! How did I not notice when it fell off??? I retraced my steps but never found it. ARGH! $50 bucks for an "open box" replacement that's on its way. That seems like a lot to pay for a couple of bucks worth of plastic, but I can only blame myself for not being more aware.
 

Marilynne

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Sorry to hear that Woody. I'm on my 3rd lens hood for my Tamron 150-600mm. It kept cracking when it was on the camera in the bag on the back of my bicycle. It was $25 back then. After the third one, I don't keep it on the camera anymore, but carry it separately.
 

nikonpup

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Bikerbrent

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Bummer Woody!! It would sure be nice if all lens hoods, lens caps, etc. had some kind of strap so you could attach them to the lens or camera body. I have considered gluing a string to them, but have not really tried it. Heck, I guess I need to work on this some, maybe I could get rich then and buy some more camera gear!
 

cwgrizz

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Woody, I feel you pain. I have one on my 500mm that is cracked where it mounts to the lens. I looked to get a replacement and saw what nikonpup posted. I decided I could try to glue it back together vs the price of a replacement. Glue didn't do real well (didn't last long). Then I tried JB Weld 2 part epoxy. It worked a little longer than the glue, but still ended up coming apart. Even though it is still cracked, it still works, but is not as secure as I would like it. That makes me pay closer attention to where it is at. Ha!
 

BF Hammer

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Black items get lost easily in a shady place if the sun is shining. When the iris' of your eyes get small, things disappear on you. Stage magicians depend on that as a matter of fact.

Long ago, maybe 11 years back, I was on a solo hike on top of a bluff chasing 2 geocaches. I had my work cellphone in a holster clipped to my backpack shoulder strap, thinking it was secure there. Well at one of my stops where I retrieved a geocache, I took off my pack and and the holster came off the strap. I did not discover that fact until I had reached the end of the trail and was about to descend the bluff to where I parked. I had 5.5 miles walked showing on my gps. I was on-call for the weekend, I really needed to find that thing. I back-tracked through a mob of mosquitos as the sun got lower in the sky. I did figure it was most likely at a spot where I stopped and bent over a lot. I spotted it after walking back 2 miles. I was over 9 miles descending the hill. Yes that is my personal record hike. I was as spent as could be. I think the mutant mosquitos were actually attracted to the DEET spray I kept applying. The sun set as I drove away. I was desperate for some food and sleep, but had to go 30 miles to get home. Ahh, good times. ;)
 

Woodyg3

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Black items get lost easily in a shady place if the sun is shining. When the iris' of your eyes get small, things disappear on you. Stage magicians depend on that as a matter of fact.

Long ago, maybe 11 years back, I was on a solo hike on top of a bluff chasing 2 geocaches. I had my work cellphone in a holster clipped to my backpack shoulder strap, thinking it was secure there. Well at one of my stops where I retrieved a geocache, I took off my pack and and the holster came off the strap. I did not discover that fact until I had reached the end of the trail and was about to descend the bluff to where I parked. I had 5.5 miles walked showing on my gps. I was on-call for the weekend, I really needed to find that thing. I back-tracked through a mob of mosquitos as the sun got lower in the sky. I did figure it was most likely at a spot where I stopped and bent over a lot. I spotted it after walking back 2 miles. I was over 9 miles descending the hill. Yes that is my personal record hike. I was as spent as could be. I think the mutant mosquitos were actually attracted to the DEET spray I kept applying. The sun set as I drove away. I was desperate for some food and sleep, but had to go 30 miles to get home. Ahh, good times. ;)

Well, that certainly beats my story! LOL. I hate losing things, I'm glad you were able to locate your lost item!
 

Danno

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Black items get lost easily in a shady place if the sun is shining. When the iris' of your eyes get small, things disappear on you. Stage magicians depend on that as a matter of fact.

Long ago, maybe 11 years back, I was on a solo hike on top of a bluff chasing 2 geocaches. I had my work cellphone in a holster clipped to my backpack shoulder strap, thinking it was secure there. Well at one of my stops where I retrieved a geocache, I took off my pack and and the holster came off the strap. I did not discover that fact until I had reached the end of the trail and was about to descend the bluff to where I parked. I had 5.5 miles walked showing on my gps. I was on-call for the weekend, I really needed to find that thing. I back-tracked through a mob of mosquitos as the sun got lower in the sky. I did figure it was most likely at a spot where I stopped and bent over a lot. I spotted it after walking back 2 miles. I was over 9 miles descending the hill. Yes that is my personal record hike. I was as spent as could be. I think the mutant mosquitos were actually attracted to the DEET spray I kept applying. The sun set as I drove away. I was desperate for some food and sleep, but had to go 30 miles to get home. Ahh, good times. ;)

I know Wisconsin mosquitos. You are fortunate that they did not simply carry you away. Until this post I had NO idea what a Geocache was. Now I am just searching for why you would chase after it, but I guess there is a reason. It just eludes me. It is a very good story though. ;)
 

BF Hammer

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I know Wisconsin mosquitos. You are fortunate that they did not simply carry you away. Until this post I had NO idea what a Geocache was. Now I am just searching for why you would chase after it, but I guess there is a reason. It just eludes me. It is a very good story though. ;)

Not literally chasing, but searching. For those that don't actually know, geocaching at it's most basic form is looking for a hidden container somebody places in a location, and the gps co-ordinates are published on a website. The idea is to draw you to an interesting location and the searching can get quite challenging. I did this a lot from 2003 to 2015, but fell out of the hobby more as I became disappointed increasingly in the quality and focus of the geocache hides. It just became a numbers game in my area with less emphasis on bringing people to a hidden gem of a location. But it nurtured my landscape photography interests quite a lot.
 
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Clovishound

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Thermacell is the only way to go for mosquitos. I became a believer after my first hunting trip with my dive buddy, now my hunting buddy. Hunting at the Wildlife Management Areas starts in mid Oct here. Most seasons the mosquitos are still around until well into Nov. I spent the first trip as close to by buddy as possible, as he had a Themacell up and running. Went out and bought one the next day. If they are really swarming super heavy, you will still have problems, but most of the time there is a buffer around you they just won't come into. Wind can occasionally cause problems if it is heavy enough to blow the allethrin away, but not heavy enough to blow the mosquitos away. This is a synthetic analog of a naturally occurring component of Chrysanthemums.

I've never seen any spray on repellent do much to avoid mosquitos. DEET works well on ticks and redbugs, useless on the flying critters.
 
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