Coby Folding Lightweight Stereo Headphones CVH56 (Black)

I've been a professional photographer for 40 years. I ALWAYS use a rubber lens hood for my camera lenses. As a lens hood to protect your pictures from lens flare, all lens hoods are pretty useless. None of them extend far enough to really offer practical protection. But, as a device to protect the LENS from physical damage rubber lens hoods are EXCELLENT! Think of them as a big giant rubber bumper that absorbs shock of the lens is ever accidently banged against something. I get about a year or two of "life" out of such lens hoods before they begin to tear away from the metal screw-ring and have to be replaced. So, I always buy them two-at-a-time! I think of them as a disposable safety device to the protection of the lens. Zeikos ZE-LH58 58mm Soft Rubber Lens Hood

The price is so low on this that I took a chance and bought two. This was a good move.

I've had many of these collapsible hoods over the years. What you care about is:

1. It must shield the lens from flare.

2. You must be able to pop it out or collapse it without taking your eye from the view finder.

3. It must screw cleanly into the delicate filter threads on the end of the lens, and accept filters and lens caps into its own threads.

4. It must fit in your kit bag.

This hood scores perfectly on #1-#3. It is large in diameter when collapsed, so you do need a bit of care to get it into your bag, particularly a small bag. But I don't see how any rubber hood could do a better job of this, so I did not deduct any points.

Highly recommended.

I'm not a professional photographer like some of the other reviewers, but have been taking film and digital using SLR for many years. I think these are a good deal, both for lens protection and photo quality, but found the threads to be somewhat coarse. Not as cool looking as some of the other lens hoods, but a whole lot cheaper and more versatile.