This lens hood will shade your lens from stray light, improving your image contrast and quality. Your camera's barrel will also be protected from inevitable impacts against walls, door frames, and other obstacles. Ins inclement weather, it can help keep moisture and debris off the lens.

This petal shape offers the same flare prevention as circular or rectangular designs, but is smaller and lighter.

The main function of the lens hood is to shade the lens from stray light, improving your contrast and image quality. But it will also protects the front barrel from the inevitable impacts against walls, door frames, and other real-life obstacles and in inclement weather, it can assist in keeping moisture or wind-blown debris off the lens.

This hood enables you to shoot even towards the light source (in bright sunlight) without excessive flare, as long as you keep the light source outside the image area.

• One (1) Flower shaped screw mount lens hood

Installation instructions:
1. Rotate lock-ring to expose the hood's mounting thread
2. Attach the hood by screwing it on the filter or lens thread.
3. Rotate lock-ring back to fix the hood on the thread.
4. While attaching the hood with the lock-ring, keep the "▼" symbol on the hood exactly at 12 o'clock position for the correct orientation of the higher sides of the hood.