Canon LA-HDC10 Lens Adapter/Hood set for PowerShot S1 IS Digital Camera

Lens hood is pretty worthless when you use the tel ...

Strengths: This is the orginial Canon product and is easy to install.

Weaknesses: Lens hood is pretty worthless when you use the teleconverter with the camera.

Summary: Lens hood is pretty worthless when you use the teleconverter and wide angle lenses with the camera. The hood also doesn't retract so is impossible to put the camera in most small over the shoulder camera bags with the hood installed (I had a retractable hood on my 35mm camera and it worked great). Was a bit disappointed that the material the adapter and hood are made of is stiff plastic--looks like it wouldn't take much pressure to break it--my adapter for my Kodak digital is made of metal and I have a much better feeling that it will take a little jostling around without damage. My lens hood for my 35mm is soft rubber and also would not break easily.

Converter is a must for keeping your lens from damage and using teleconverter and wide angle lenses. It would be nice if the hood also came with a lens cap that fit the 52mm opening to keep dust out of the lens area of the camera. The original camera lens cap will not fit this larger diameter.

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This item is good to have to protect the le ...

Strengths: You have no choice but have to buy it to pretect the lens.

Weaknesses: The lens adapter is loose. The lens hood is not retractable; it does not have an outer thread to allow a filter or lense cap; it blocks the flash.

Summary:

This item is good to have to protect the lens of the Canon S1 IS. Otherwise you may end of cleaning the lens every time after going out to beach or some theme parks where you get water spray on the lens easily. The ONLY way to add protection to your lens is to buy this item. Plus, you will need a 52mm UV filter and/or a 52mm lens cap.

The package comes with two items: lens adapter and hood.

The lens adapter can be easily mounted in front of the camera. It has a 52mm thread so you can put on a 52mm filter and/or a lens cap to protect the lens. Or you can put on the 0.5X and 2X conversion lenses in front of the adapter. I can tell from the first minute that the adapter does not snatch tightly and it may fall off. It's probably common since it's built with 100% plastic. It actually went off once and my filter and hood dropped to the floor. Fortunately I didn't but the more expensive conversion lenses on it.

The lens hood is kind of useless. It's not retractable so it takes a lot of room. The hood doesn't have an outer thread to put on a lens cap. What this means is, if you directly put the lens hood in front of the adapter, your lens is still not protected. You can always put a UV filter on the adapter and then thread the hood on to the UV filter, but the filter will get dirty very soon since you can't put on a lens cap to cover the filter. Finally, you are not supposed to use the lens hood when shooting indoor pictures with the flash. The hood blocks the flash and you will see a big black shadow on top of the pictures.

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