/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Here's a deep lens hood I've been working on. It needs better flocking. The light still bounces around too much with a solid front design. Making it a tulip shape or putting this standard tulip lens hood on it allows the bounced light to cast off before entering the rest of the tube. The increase in contrast is amazing for DIY lenses that don't have great coatings. It works with my 85mm single element lens from >>1407628 and anything with a longer focal length.

It is pressure fitted over the front mount of the macro bellows. The tulip lens is also pressure fitted into the tube. The tube is a Pringles can. The flocking inside the can and the method of pressure fitting are both done using black craft foam. JB Weld was used to affix the foam to the can for the pressure fittings. The flocking is removable so I may install proper flocking at a later date. I may make another one that has its own tulip cut out so I don't need to use the secondary lens hood.