Red 18-85 - Battle Tested - Hood vignette surgery

[Glen David Miller]

If this is the right place to ask this... I just bought a Battle Tested 18 to 85 Red Pro Zoom. It's a nice lens. And I've read a couple of places that you see a little vignette of the hood. Well, I see now that it's true.

But, it looks like to me that if small sections of the "hood" were removed, this wouldn't happen. I also assume that this lens has the shortest available hood.

So, has anyone taken this off or machined out the four offending corners of the hood?

-Glen

 

[Evin Grant]

This is not something I'd do myself unless you're willing to Dremel a notch out of the front element. Either that or at least have a trained lens tech take the hood off before you attempt surgery. I still don't think it's worth it, if your shooting 16:9 just shoot 4K if you're shooting 5K widescreen then it doesn't vignette.

 

[Glen David Miller]

Thanks for the reply Evin!

Yes, I'd totally have a lens tech do it. All of my old Canon glass arrived with corners missing from the factory so I figured why not. Seems an easy enough fix.

And since I read that no one in Cine Land adds a protective front cover to their Cine Glass the way we did with our still lenses, I wondered why there was even a hood on this beast!

-Glen