Compendium Hoods Compatible with the Arca Swiss 171 Frame?

[Atul Mohidekar]

Let me get this straight..

The Arca swiss or the Canham hood for rya swiss do not support the use of grad filters?

The lee does? but only one grad filter? (no polariser?)

I was hoping to get a hood that will be able to shield both the lens and grad filters. Currently I have a range of cokin p sized filters but I am contemplating moving to the bigger filter size to facilitate usage with the 72xl and potential future 8x10 lenses. Is there any system that can facilitate "hooding" of these type of lenses+filters?

You can insert multiple rectangular filters in the Lee filter holder slots. Also, one of the less-known features of the Lee filter holder is that it attaches to the lens using a circular Lee adapter ring which has internal threads to attach any round filter - very clever! I use this feature all the time to attach a round polarizer (closest to the lens) + a rectangular GND filter inserted into one of the filter holder slots + the Lee lens hood inserted into the front-most slot of the filter holder. Thus the lens hood provides shade to the rectangular filter, the round filter and the lens. When I take some pictures of my setup, I will post them here.

// Atul

[Darren H]

Darren, are you using the filter insert for the Arca hood? it takes 4" filters in an open slot (so no filter height restriction). This then slides into the back or front of the hood and the filter can be rotated if required.

No I have not used that, but it might be something worth looking into.

Most of the time I just use my hat to shade the lens these days.

[aporodagon]

Here's a picture of the filter holder partially inserted into the compendium shade. The filter holder came with my shade (used). I find it useful as I can swing the compendium up and remove the filter from the light path to final check for focus, or you can just slide the holder out. It will work with grad filters. Knowing Arca it's probably not a cheap option.

[Darren H]

Here's a picture of the filter holder partially inserted into the compendium shade. The filter holder came with my shade (used). I find it useful as I can swing the compendium up and remove the filter from the light path to final check for focus, or you can just slide the holder out. It will work with grad filters. Knowing Arca it's probably not a cheap option.

I will certainly now have to check that out or possibly try something homebrew.

Thanks for posting this!