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Three bullets: durable, flexible, quality

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.

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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Specifications

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

On the listing

Three bullets. Durable; flexible design; quality and durability.

Three words, at eighteen euros

The shortest specification in this catalogue. Not a shape, not a lens, not a material, not a mount — three adjectives and a part number.

“For EF lenses”

The EF mount spans hundreds of lenses across three decades. The ES-68 fits one of them, and the page names neither.

What the part number does say

ES-68 is unambiguous to anyone who already knows what they need. As a catalogue entry for a spare part that is sufficient; as a page to choose from, it is not.

What a third-party page manages for five euros

Nine camera bodies, a lens, a mounting method and a material. The 11 € HUIPUXIANG on this shelf even names the lens versions it will not fit.

Why an original hood is still worth considering

It is cut for the lens, bayonets in one orientation and reverses over the barrel. None of which is on the page.

Availability

Between 18 € and 26 € on the German, French and Italian 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.

On the Spanish Amazon store the asking price sits more than 1.6× above the cheapest country. A difference that wide usually means a reshipper rather than a seller on the ground, so it is kept out of the figures above.

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.

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    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
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    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.

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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
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    Filter access
    Not addressed
    Reversibility
    Not mentioned
    Material
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    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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  • JJC lens hood fitted to an Olympus M.Zuiko 40-150 mm zoom

    JJC LHJ61DBK, for M.Zuiko 40-150 mm, LH-61D replacement

    A dedicated hood for three named Olympus zooms in impact-resistant ABS, replacing the LH-61D for 11 €.

    Shape
    NOT STATED — which on a dedicated hood matters less than anywhere else on this shelf. A hood cut for one specific lens is shaped to that lens’s angle of view by design, whatever the page calls it: the maker has already done the geometry that a universal hood leaves to the buyer
    Lenses named
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    Fitting method
    Not stated. A hood sold as a replacement for a specific Olympus part fits the way that part did — a bayonet — but the page does not say so, and it is the one specification a dedicated hood should not have to leave out
    Filter access
    Not addressed. A bayonet hood mounts outside the filter thread rather than in it, so a filter usually stays fitted — but this page does not claim it
    Reversibility
    Not mentioned
    Material
    IMPACT-RESISTANT ABS, in the first bullet, with the second and third bullets crediting it with protection against accidental knocks for both camera and lens. The fourth adds rain and snow, which is the hood’s other job: it keeps water off the front element
    Amazon reference
    B0CN9CY26R (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    6940202320206
    • Three lenses named in full, plus the Olympus part number it replaces
    • Impact-resistant ABS, with protection from knocks stated three times
    • The shape is never stated

    Best for: An Olympus M.Zuiko 40-150 mm whose original LH-61D has been lost.

    ≈ £10 / 11 €
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    EMART EM-LS703-2, two stands, 87 to 210 cm, 1 kg each

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    Maximum and minimum height
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    Folded length
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    Section count
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    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
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    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

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    Leg spread
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    Material
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    Amazon reference
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    EAN
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    ≈ £45 / 39 €
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  • K&F Concept variable ND filter with its knurled trapezoid-patterned ring

    K&F CONCEPT 67 mm variable, ND2-400, 1 to 9 stops, 7.4 mm

    One to nine stops on a variable 67 mm filter for 29 €, in Japanese AGC glass — from a page that tells you not to fit it to a lens wider than 35 mm.

    Strength
    1 to 9 stops, in the title and the first and fourth bullets, named for long exposures and motion blur in changing light. Nine stops turns a 1/250 second exposure into two seconds — the difference between frozen water and a smooth sheet
    Notations given
    BOTH, in the title: ND2-400 and 1-9 f-stops. The two notations describe the same thing from opposite ends — ND2 passes half the light and ND400 a four-hundredth — and publishing both saves the arithmetic. The hub above asks for exactly this, and the 186 € NiSi here gives ND0.3-1.5 instead, a third notation again
    Fixed or variable construction
    VARIABLE, and both filters on this shelf are. A variable ND is two polarising layers rotated against each other, which is why it costs less than nine separate filters and why it has the failure the hub above warns about at the extremes
    Thread size
    67 mm, in the title
    Stated colour cast
    NOT ADDRESSED. The second bullet claims intense colours and high contrast from Japanese AGC glass; neutrality is never claimed and no cast is denied. On a variable ND that is the specification most worth having — the 186 € NiSi here sells its True Color coating precisely on preventing a yellow tint
    Coatings
    Not counted. Japanese AGC glass is named in the second bullet and no layer count appears, where the same maker publishes eighteen layers on its UV and polarising filters
    Frame thickness
    7.4 mm, in the third bullet, described as very slim with a CNC trapezoid pattern that raises friction so it can be fitted or removed anywhere. Seven point four millimetres is thicker than any polariser on this shelf, which is inherent: a variable ND holds two rotating elements
    Amazon reference
    B09BCJ6N8G (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    6936069271669
    • Two notations published — ND2-400 and 1-9 stops — so no conversion is needed
    • A published 7.4 mm frame with a CNC pattern for grip
    • No colour cast claim either way, on a variable ND

    Best for: A 67 mm standard or telephoto lens used for long exposures in changing light, where nine stops in one filter beats carrying four.

    ≈ 29 €
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