Most of you out there should know what a lens hood is if you own a user. Lens hoods are designed with two primary goals: one is to prevent damage to lenses, and two, to block out stray light. Lens hoods are attached onto lenses like bayonets – you place them in place and turn them to lock them in place. However, after a while, they tend to become loose and are easily detached. Now you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you?
In my case, the lens hood I got was very loose to begin with. It was a 3rd party lens hood which cost me RM50 (no joke!) and so therefore, after reading an article over at PetaPixel, decided to do a very simple DIY trick to solve my lens-hood-stability woes.

Sticking tape!
It is in fact a very, very easy DIY. Before we start, we’ll need:
1. A pair of scissors.
2. Some tape (I used cloth tape, but any type will do)
3. A lens.
4. A matching lens hood.

Scissors and tape
Once you’ve got all 4, we may proceed.
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