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Use a Coffee Cup Sleeve as a Temporary Lens Hood
Whether you left your lens hood at home or you don’t even have one, this quick and dirty hack turns a coffee cup sleeve into a temporary lens hood.
Slide the sleeve around the lens, take the photos, toss it in the recycling bin. Except for making a quick cut with pocket knife to adjust the size (if need be) there’s not much else you need to do for this simple sleeve-to-hood hack.
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Jason Fitzpatrick is warranty-voiding DIYer and all around geek. When he's not documenting mods and hacks he's doing his best to make sure a generation of college students graduate knowing they should put their pants on one leg at a time and go on to greatness, just like Bruce Dickinson. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like.
- Published 04/6/12
nice !…like that people can say, “…and who’s the big dork over there with a coffee cup sleeve
on his lens.”
@r
And that’s when you do the Leo Strut.
1) Spend hundreds of dollars on a DSLR
2) Be too cheap to spend $10-20 on a lens hood
3) ??????
4) Profit!!!
thats why its called a “hack” blackholesun…
its neat – but you would ned an opaque cup to really work wont you?
nevertheless ingeneous idea.
It’s not a hack, someone just put a coffee cup sleeve on the front of their lens, which probably causes lots of vignetting. There is nothing ingenious about that.