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CAMKIX Two rubber collapsible hoods plus a petal, 55 mm

Eleven euros for two collapsible rubber hoods with three positions each, a tulip petal hood and a cap — the only hood here that can live on the lens permanently.

CamKix set of two rubber collapsible hoods, a tulip hood and a lens cap

CAMKIX Two rubber collapsible hoods plus a petal, 55 mm

Eleven euros for two collapsible rubber hoods with three positions each, a tulip petal hood and a cap — the only hood here that can live on the lens permanently.

Shape
TWO, which is the point of the pack: two collapsible RUBBER hoods, cylindrical when extended, and one TULIP PETAL hood the fourth bullet names for wide-angle lenses, describing it as giving maximum shading without vignetting. Buying the two shapes together is how the shelf’s first question gets answered by having both
Lenses named
None individually — any 55 mm thread. The first bullet does the useful thing instead: it tells the buyer to verify the lens thread size before ordering and says the ⌀ value is on the front of the lens or under the cap
Fitting method
A thread, implied by 55 mm compatibility and never stated as such. On a rubber hood the thread matters less: the body flexes, so an imperfect orientation is absorbed
Filter access
Not addressed, though a cap is included — which suggests the cap fits the hood’s own front rather than the lens beneath it
Reversibility
SOMETHING BETTER: the third bullet describes a rubber hood that folds out in THREE STEPS for different levels of shading and collapses fully flat — so, in its own words, it can be left on the lens and is therefore always available. A hood that never comes off is a hood that gets used, which is the whole problem with hoods
Material
RUBBER for the two collapsible hoods, in the title and the first bullet. Rubber is the material that makes the three-step folding possible, and it also absorbs a knock that would crack ABS. The petal hood’s material is not named
Amazon reference
B07VH75Z98 (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0711099327137
  • A rubber hood that collapses flat and can stay on the lens permanently
  • Three extension steps, so the shading suits the focal length in use
  • No individual lens named, so the petal’s scallops are cut for no particular angle

Best for: A 55 mm lens used across a zoom range, where a hood that folds flat and never leaves the lens beats a deeper one left in a drawer.

≈ $8 / £8 / 11 €
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Specifications

Shape
TWO, which is the point of the pack: two collapsible RUBBER hoods, cylindrical when extended, and one TULIP PETAL hood the fourth bullet names for wide-angle lenses, describing it as giving maximum shading without vignetting. Buying the two shapes together is how the shelf’s first question gets answered by having both
Lenses named
None individually — any 55 mm thread. The first bullet does the useful thing instead: it tells the buyer to verify the lens thread size before ordering and says the ⌀ value is on the front of the lens or under the cap
Fitting method
A thread, implied by 55 mm compatibility and never stated as such. On a rubber hood the thread matters less: the body flexes, so an imperfect orientation is absorbed
Filter access
Not addressed, though a cap is included — which suggests the cap fits the hood’s own front rather than the lens beneath it
Reversibility
SOMETHING BETTER: the third bullet describes a rubber hood that folds out in THREE STEPS for different levels of shading and collapses fully flat — so, in its own words, it can be left on the lens and is therefore always available. A hood that never comes off is a hood that gets used, which is the whole problem with hoods
Material
RUBBER for the two collapsible hoods, in the title and the first bullet. Rubber is the material that makes the three-step folding possible, and it also absorbs a knock that would crack ABS. The petal hood’s material is not named
Amazon reference
B07VH75Z98 (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0711099327137

On the listing

Five bullets, each opening with a tick. An essential DSLR accessory — two rubber hoods compatible with all 55 mm lenses plus a lens cap, with a note to verify the lens thread size before ordering and that the ⌀ diameter is on the front of the lens or under the cap; blocking excess sunlight for better photographs and video, reducing glare and flare and deepening the blacks; collapsible in three steps, folding out for different levels of shading and folding fully flat so it can be left on the lens and used whenever needed; a tulip flower hood whose shape is called ideal for wide-angle lenses, offering maximum shading without vignetting; and a closing bullet offering other CamKix accessories.

A hood that folds flat

Every other hood on this shelf comes off to travel. This one collapses against the lens and stays there, which is the difference between owning a hood and using one.

Three steps, for three focal lengths

Fully out for the long end, half out for the middle, flat for the bag. A zoom lens needs different shading at each end, and rubber is the only material that does it by hand.

Two shapes in one pack

Cylindrical rubber and a tulip petal. The shelf above compares hoods on shape first, and this is the pack that declines to choose.

Rubber, which also survives the door frame

A hood is what hits things. Rubber absorbs what ABS cracks at, and the folding depends on it.

The ⌀ symbol, again

On the front of the lens, or under the cap. Two pages in this catalogue say where to look, and this is one of them.

Availability

Between 11 € and 13 € on the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores when this page was last checked.

The American and British Amazon stores carry it too, priced in local currency. Those amounts are deliberately absent from the range above, which reads euro stores only.

Everything in this section is the figure Keepa carried on the day of the last update to this page. Availability and prices shift without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 13 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

More lens hoods

  • Canon ES-68 lens hood, black, upright on a white surface

    Canon ES-68, for EF lenses — three bullets in total

    Eighteen euros for Canon’s own ES-68 hood, whose specification consists of three words — the emptiest page on this shelf and the only one from the lens maker.

    Shape
    NOT STATED. The ES-68 is Canon’s own cylindrical hood for its EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM, but nothing on the page says so — not the shape, not the lens, not the diameter
    Lenses named
    NONE. The title says "für EF Objektive" — for EF lenses — and the EF mount covers hundreds of lenses across thirty years, of which the ES-68 fits one. It is the loosest compatibility statement on this shelf, from the only maker on it that built the lens
    Fitting method
    Not stated. Canon’s ES-68 is a bayonet hood, and the page does not say
    Filter access
    Not addressed
    Reversibility
    Not mentioned — on a hood that does reverse over the barrel
    Material
    NOT NAMED. Three bullets exist: durable; flexible design; quality/durability. That is the whole listing, and not one of the three words is a specification
    Amazon reference
    B00XHG4UUA (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    4549292037739
    • Canon’s own part, so the fit on the lens it was made for is exact
    • The part number ES-68 identifies it beyond doubt for anyone who knows it
    • Three bullets, none of which is a specification

    Best for: A Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM, bought by part number because the page will not tell you anything else.

    ≈ £22 / 18 €
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  • CELLONIC metal lens hood in black on a small 46 mm prime lens

    CELLONIC Wide-angle, 46 mm, METAL, cylindrical

    The only metal hood on this shelf: a 46 mm cylindrical wide-angle design, named for the 7Artisans 25 mm f/1.8, at 13 €.

    Shape
    STATED, and in four words: round, cylindrical, tube — plus the title’s description of it as a WIDE-ANGLE hood. A cylindrical hood for a wide angle has to be shallow, which is exactly the compromise: it shades less than a deep hood and it never enters the frame
    Lenses named
    One, explicitly: the 7Artisans 25 mm f/1.8 with a 46 mm filter thread, in the fifth bullet, alongside a general claim covering camcorder, telephoto, macro and wide-angle lenses of that thread. Forty-six millimetres is a small thread, and naming a manual-focus prime tells you what kind of lens this is for
    Fitting method
    A 46 mm filter thread, named in the fourth and fifth bullets. On a cylindrical hood the thread is the right choice: there is no orientation to get wrong
    Filter access
    Not addressed
    Reversibility
    Not mentioned
    Material
    METAL, in the fourth bullet — and it is the only metal hood on this shelf, where five are plastic, ABS or rubber and one is unstated. Metal costs more, weighs more and does not crack; it also dents rather than breaking, which is the failure you can keep shooting with
    Amazon reference
    B07JC8SJC6 (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    4250843496607
    • Metal, alone on this shelf — it dents rather than cracking
    • The shape stated outright, and a wide-angle design that stays out of the frame
    • A shallow cylindrical hood shades less than a deep or petal one

    Best for: A small manual prime like the 7Artisans 25 mm f/1.8, where a metal hood matched to the lens beats a deeper plastic one.

    ≈ 13 €
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  • HUIPUXIANG EW-73D petal hood on a Canon RF 24-105 mm lens

    HUIPUXIANG EW-73D replacement, 67 mm, with its exclusions

    Eleven euros for an EW-73D replacement that names three Canon zooms it fits and, unusually, three versions of those same lenses it does not.

    Shape
    Not stated in words. The EW-73D is Canon’s petal design for these lenses, and a replacement necessarily copies its geometry — but the page names the part rather than the shape
    Lenses named
    THREE, AND THE EXCLUSIONS — which is what makes this the most careful page on this shelf. Compatible: the Canon RF 24-105 mm F4-7.1 IS STM, the EF-S 18-135 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, and the RF 28-70 mm F2.8 IS STM. NOT compatible, stated in brackets: the RF 24-105 mm f/4L IS USM, and the EF-S 18-135 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS and IS STM versions. Canon sells lenses whose names differ by three letters and whose front diameters differ, and this page is the one that draws the line
    Fitting method
    Not stated. As a replacement for the EW-73D it mounts as that part does — a bayonet — and the page does not say so
    Filter access
    Not addressed
    Reversibility
    Not mentioned
    Material
    High-grade ABS plastic, black, in the fourth bullet. The fifth adds the usual double duty: protecting the lens from accidental damage, and keeping outside light from spoiling the picture
    Amazon reference
    B09VZF93YV (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    0645716621530
    • Three compatible lenses named, and three incompatible versions named too
    • A Canon part number — EW-73D — so the fit is unambiguous
    • The shape is never named, only the part it replaces

    Best for: One of the three named Canon zooms — checking the exact version first, because two of them have siblings this hood does not fit.

    ≈ $9 / £9 / 11 €
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Elsewhere in the camera bag

  • NEEWER ST195 light stand with its legs folded upward alongside the column

    NEEWER ST195, 44 to 195 cm, reversible legs, 1 kg

    Legs that fold back through 180 degrees bring this stand to 44 cm packed — the shortest on this shelf — at 1 kg, with 2 kg of declared load for 39 €.

    Maximum and minimum height
    44 to 195 cm, in the third bullet, from a three-section centre column with a snap lock between each pair of segments. The minimum is the joint lowest on this shelf, which puts a light at table height or below
    Folded length
    44 cm, in the fifth bullet, and it is the shortest on this shelf by 29 cm. The reason is in the same bullet: the legs reverse through 180 degrees and fold up alongside the column instead of hanging below it
    Section count
    Three in the column, in the third bullet, with two-section telescopic legs in the fourth. It is the only page here to publish both counts
    Spigot and thread sizes
    A 1/4 inch screw, in the first bullet, named for continuous lights, ring lights, LED panels, monolights, softboxes, umbrellas and action cameras. As on the EMART, no 16 mm stud is mentioned — so studio fittings that expect a spigot receiver are not provided for
    Declared load
    4.4 lb, 2 kg, in the second bullet. It is the lowest rating on this shelf by more than half, and it is the honest consequence of a 1 kg stand: the second bullet calls it impressive, and 2 kg is a small flash or an LED panel, not a studio head
    Leg spread
    Three spread angles, in the fourth bullet, set by a snap construction, with advice to open the legs until the centre column touches the ground for maximum stability. No footprint diameter is published, but three published angles is more than any other page here offers
    Material
    Anodised aluminium described as rust-free, in the second bullet, at 2.2 lb or 1 kg in the fifth — tied with the EMART for the lightest here
    Amazon reference
    B0DCV8NXYF (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    0191073097247
    • Forty-four centimetres folded, the shortest on this shelf by a wide margin
    • Legs reversible through 180 degrees, and three published spread angles
    • Two kilograms declared, the lowest rating here

    Best for: A ring light or an LED panel that has to travel, where 44 cm in the bag decides whether the stand comes at all.

    ≈ $30 / £36 / 39 €
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  • Pair of EMART aluminium light stands extended, with their black nylon carry bags

    EMART EM-LS703-2, two stands, 87 to 210 cm, 1 kg each

    Two stands for 37 €, each reaching 210 cm and carrying 5 kg at 1 kg apiece — and the only page here to publish both a folded length and a weight.

    Maximum and minimum height
    87 to 210 cm, in the second bullet. At 87 cm it starts higher than the NEEWER and the Walimex, which come down to 44 cm — which matters for lighting a seated subject or a table from just above
    Folded length
    73 cm, in the second bullet. The buying advice for this shelf says to measure the folded length against the bag you already own before anything else, and this is one of only two pages here to publish it
    Section count
    Not published. The page describes assembly in three minutes without tools and never says how many segments the column has, so the number of clamps to check is unknown
    Spigot and thread sizes
    A 1/4 inch screw thread, in the third bullet, named for standard lighting, on-camera flashes and softboxes. No 5/8 inch stud is mentioned — the studio convention the hub above describes — so this is a stand that finishes in a camera thread and suits a small flash rather than a heavy head
    Declared load
    5 kg, in the first bullet. It is the second highest on this shelf and it sits oddly beside the 1/4 inch thread: the mount is sized for a light flash while the column is rated for a studio head
    Leg spread
    Not published. No footprint diameter appears, and the hub above warns that a softbox turns a stand into a sail — at which point the spread and the centre of gravity matter more than the load figure
    Material
    Aluminium alloy with a black finish, in the first bullet, at a net weight of 1 kg each. The fifth bullet lists what comes in the box: two stands and two carry bags
    Amazon reference
    B07Q85F8XW (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    0733205101011
    • Two complete stands and two bags for 37 €, where a single stand on this shelf costs 39 €
    • A folded length of 73 cm and a weight of 1 kg both published
    • A 1/4 inch thread only, with no 5/8 inch stud for studio fittings

    Best for: A first two-light setup at home, where a flash or a small LED panel goes on each stand and both have to travel in a bag.

    ≈ $33 / £35 / 37 €
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  • Walimex pro WT-806 light stand at full height with its spigot and carry bag

    Walimex pro WT-806, 102 to 256 cm, 6 kg, air-cushioned

    Two hundred and fifty-six centimetres and 6 kg for 39 €, with the only 5/8 inch spigot on this shelf and an air cushion that stops a section dropping on a hand.

    Maximum and minimum height
    102 to 256 cm, in the first bullet, described as a working height for studio and location. Two hundred and fifty-six centimetres puts it second here, 24 cm below the K&F and 46 cm above the EMART — and its 102 cm minimum is the least low of the four, so this stand does not work close to the ground
    Folded length
    Not published. The first bullet claims a compact packed size and a low weight without giving either figure, which the buying advice for this shelf calls the number people regret
    Section count
    Not published. The fifth bullet names high-grade metal locks and a solid build, and never says how many segments there are — though the third bullet implies several by describing the cushioning between them
    Spigot and thread sizes
    All three, and this is the only page here to name a spigot at all: a 5/8 inch spigot with a 1/4 inch thread, plus a 3/8 inch adapter supplied. The hub above calls the 16 mm stud the studio convention and notes that 5/8 inch names the same thing — so this is the one stand on the shelf that takes a softbox bracket or a studio head as designed
    Declared load
    6 kg, in the fourth bullet, credited to a stable aluminium construction and named for studio flashes, LED lights and softboxes. It is the strongest figure on this shelf, and it is matched by the fitting: 6 kg on a 5/8 inch spigot is a coherent pair, where 5 kg on a 1/4 inch screw is not
    Leg spread
    Not published as a figure. The fifth bullet claims a wide footing increasing stability on various surfaces, without a diameter
    Material
    Reinforced aluminium tubes with sturdy legs and high-grade metal locks, in the fourth and fifth bullets. No weight is published anywhere
    Amazon reference
    B000LWEA0I (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    2050018619358
    • A 5/8 inch spigot with a 1/4 inch thread and a 3/8 inch adapter — the only studio fitting on this shelf
    • Six kilograms declared, the strongest figure here, and 256 cm of height
    • No folded length, no weight, no section count and no footprint published

    Best for: A studio head or a softbox on a proper stand, where the spigot, the 6 kg rating and the air cushion matter and the stand stays in one room.

    ≈ £45 / 39 €
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