had to upgrade tripod because of heavy lens just purchased tamron 150 600 and I'm impressed. Its plenty tall and the ball head is nice.had a worry from other reviews that it's hard to tighten to stabilize the weight but I have no issues at all.for the price it works well and no issues at all. I've had it for a few weeks now and was disappointed how the legs would slide on hard surfaces, after trying to remove the metal points on leg bottoms I discovered turning the rubber feet all the way out will conceal the metal points.if outdoors in grass or dirt just screw the rubber back out to expose the points ,now I'm happy again.

Had to upgrade the tripod due to the heavy lens, just bought the Tamron 150 600 and am impressed. It's much big and the ball head is nice. Was concerned that it would be difficult to stabilize the weight based on other reviews, but I have had no problems at all. For the price it works well and no problems at all. I've had it for a few weeks now and was disappointed with how the legs would slip on hard surfaces. After trying to remove the metal dots on the leg ends I discovered that unscrewing the rubber feet completely hides the metal dots on grass or dirt just unscrew the rubber back out to reveal the dots, now I'm happy again.

Arrived quickly. It was exactly as expected, fitted the camera perfectly and was easy to install. Lens hood and cap both fit as before. Ideal for Panasonic DMC FZ2000

Arrived quickly. It was exactly as expected, fit the camera perfectly, and was easy to install. Lens hood and cap both fit as before. Ideal for Panasonic DMC FZ2000

I got this for several of the 52mm lenses I have. It threads on smoothly with no wobble and is made of nice, thick plastic.

One of these lenses is a 18-55mm zoom used on a Nikon DSLR with an APS-C format sensor. The manufacturer’s description says not to use this hood on any lens with a wider field of view than 25mm to avoid vignetting (darkening of the edges of the photo). The crop factor for Nikon APS-C sensors is 1.5x, so at 18mm this lens has a field of view comparable to 27mm on a full frame digital camera or a standard 35mm film camera which is usually used as the reference when describing the field of view of lenses attached to cameras which evolved from 35mm film cameras. Look it up to get a better idea of what I’m talking about if you don’t already know. I’m not that keen on it myself.

Anyway, 27mm is uncomfortably close to 25mm so I ran some test shots of an evenly lit yellowish blank wall with the Nikon to check for any vignetting. The camera viewfinder is not 100% accurate so I had to go with the actual pictures. I found no noticeable vignetting at 18mm as long as the hood was oriented with the two largest “petals” pretty close to 12 and 6 o’clock. I found that to achieve the no-vignette at this position, the hood needed to be screwed in all the way – meaning that the lock ring had to be all the way snugged up to the body of the hood. A partial rotation of the ring to secure the hood with the petals at the correct position was okay, but even a few full “backwards” rotations of the lock ring which prevented the hood being screwed down as far as possible started giving me some vignetting.

Even locked down to the right position to start off there’s a slight rotation of the front of the lens to achieve proper focusing (unless you have one of those expensive lenses that have internal focusing), but the movement is fairly minor and didn’t give me any trouble. You probably will have trouble, though, if you screw the hood onto a filter and then try to shoot at 18mm! If using a zoom lens you could cancel any vignette by just selecting a slightly longer focal length at which to shoot.

Apologies for going on, but the take-away is that you shouldn’t have vignette issues using this hood at 18mm on a APS-C format camera. Canon has a 1.6x crop factor which puts you even farther from the 25mm danger zone. If you have a full frame format digital or a 35mm film camera, you would have major issues at 18mm. So, then don’t use any focal length under the 25mm mentioned. Of course, if you are using a zoom lens, you can use it fine at focal lengths greater than 25mm.

I don’t need to penalize this hood by taking away stars as it seems to be well made and does its job very inexpensively.

I had to upgrade tripod because of heavy lens just purchased tamron 150 600 and I'm impressed. Its plenty tall and the ball head is nice.had a worry from other reviews that it's hard to tighten to stabilize the weight but I have no issues at all.for the price it works well and no issues at all. I've had it for a few weeks now and was disappointed how the legs would slide on hard surfaces, after trying to remove the metal points on leg bottoms I discovered turning the rubber feet all the way out will conceal the metal points.if outdoors in grass or dirt just screw the rubber back out to expose the points ,now I'm happy again.

The K&F Concept ND 8 filter is a handy item to have in your kit, especially if you are looking for a well-built filter at a reasonable price.

The filter has a dimming factor of 0.9, or three stops, allowing you to use slower shutter speeds during the day or in bright conditions. The filter has 18 layers of coating.

The aluminum frame is light and very thin, and I had no problem screwing it on to a lens. The manufacturer also lists the filter as being both waterproof and scratch resistant.

I used the 58mm filter on a 50mm lens, and, as expected, I did not see any vignetting.

The filter also comes in a unique case with a grooved rubber insert, which allows K&F to use one case for storing different sized filters. The rubber insert does a good job holding the filter in place when it’s in the case.

K&F Concept seems to be bringing good quality products to the market, at affordable prices. Highly recommended!

Works very well, I only recommend buying an additional lens hood because if there is backlight in the picture, it looks purple in the picture. Nevertheless, I am very satisfied, it does what it is supposed to do, I can't complain