I don't remember if I ever posted this to the list, but I've been trying
to find a lens hood for this lens, since I acquired it many years ago.
When it was originally released sometime in the late 70's early 80's it
was shipped with a lens hood, and has a large diameter front filter
ring, which is unmarked, and why would it be? After all, those front
filters were and are extremely expensive, and it does take rear filters
in a much less expensive 30.5 mm diameter of which I fortunately have
the full set.
However the lens hood disappeared sometime before it came into my
possession.
Given the cost of a decent lens hood in 95mm diameter or greater, (I've
measured the inside diameter and it might be 101mm), and the difficulty
with returning an inexpensive lens hood to China, I'm loath to order one
that might not fit.
The slip on plastic lens cover has an inside diameter of 106mm so 112mm
the next common size up from 101mm is out.
Unfortunately my tools and aren't very accurate for measuring the inside
diameter of the lens threads, (simply a metal rule in inches and
metric), and there's more than enough slop for the diameter to be
anything between 95mm to 103, the later of which would be just a
nightmare to find.
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