CONSUMER ALERT! THIS 'ROTATING' 'LENS HOOD' SIMPLY DOES NOT 'ROTATE'!!
Channel: Richard Lynne Weisgerber
Date: 2020-07-12

"Panasonic Lumix DC-FZ80 Pro Digital Lens Hood (Petal Design)" Is Not What They Advertise At All. 

It Is Physically Impossible for the 'lens hood' portion of this rather expensive camera accessory to 'rotate' in any way, shape, or form in relation to the camera once it is mounted to the camera lens filter mount thread! 

There is a so-called 'locking ring' to be found functional in its intrinsic ability to wind itself from one end of its given thread to the other end, but has exactly zero actual ability to over-turn the simple fact that this 'lens hood' is ONE-PIECE in design. 

Thus, once this particular 'lens hood' is mounted to the camera, the resulting alignment between this 'lens hood' and the camera is what one gets, And That Is All One Will Ever Get, As It Is Physically Impossible For This Particular 'Lens Hood' To 'Rotate' In Any Rotational Direction Whatsoever, No Matter What One Does With Its Rather Fancily Knurled So-Called 'Locking Ring'.

Plus How Did They Ever Get This 'Locking Ring' Onto This Bogus/Phony 'Lens Hood' In The First Place? 

;)

Details about this bogus/phony lack of 'rotational ability' 'lens hood' are shown in this video and in the following text.

Just so you know...

I pull this phony 'lens hood' out of its shipping box.

I take the lens cap off the camera.

I screw this phony 'lens hood' onto the front of the lens which already has a nice UV filter on it.

I make sure it is snug, but not too tight.

I go, "Huh! This new 'lens hood' thing is all cock-eyed with relation to the camera." WTF?

I see this 'locking ring' and I spin it back and forth and it does not ever allow me to actually 'rotate' the 'lens hood' orientation with the camera.

I try for like an hour to decipher "The Mystery Of The April Fools Model 'Lens Hood'."

I take a break for a while.

I try again.

No Go. 

The 'lens hood' portion of the item I received is actually the same physical piece of plastic as the portion that mounts to the lens, Thus Permanently Disallowing Any Actual Physical Rotation Of The 'Lens Hood' Portion Separate From The Camera Body As Since It Is A One-Piece 'Lens Hood', Once One Screws It Onto The Front Of The Camera It Becomes One With The Camera, PERIOD. 

Up until the 'lens hood' portion of this scenario becomes a physically separate piece of plastic from the lens mount itself, with some sort of rotating/locking arrangement in between the two separate parts... 

THIS TOTALLY BOGUS/PHONY 'LENS HOOD' WILL NEVER EVER FUNCTION AS ADVERTISED!!! 

Yes, This Is A Fraudulent Unit! 

The April Fools Model, apparently, the unit I actually received, anyways.

I further supposed that, since this so-called 'locking ring' wasn't actually doing anything at all, As Certain Simple Laws Of Physics Come Into Play Here, I could simply unscrew it a little bit from the lens/filter just enough to be able to properly align this 'rotating' 'lens hood' with the attached camera.  

But no, I ran out of thread on the UV filter before the 'lens hood' portion could even come close to ever being properly aligned with the camera at all. 

And, besides, isn't one supposed to thread things together snug, so they don't fall apart on you?

I scratch my head for a while.

I Try Again. 

Then Again.

I went so far as to take this Single-Piece 'lens hood' off the camera. Then I squeezed it at the lens mount end. Then I grabbed the 'lens hood' end with my other hand. Then I twisted and twisted this one-piece 'rotating' 'lens hood' every which way in my effort to 'rotate' it separate from its mount, but NO GO!

And Then It Dawned On Me!!!

"I GOT GYPPED!" 

The 'lens hood' portion of this rather expensive but totally bogus/phony camera accessory CAN NEVER ROTATE IN ANY FASHION IN RELATION TO THE CAMERA WHATSOEVER, except for how it ends-up being oriented on the camera once it is fully screwed onto the camera lens.

The lens mount portion would have to be a completely separate piece of plastic for the 'lens hood' to be able to rotate in any way in relation to the camera once it is mounted to the camera. 

But, since it is one-piece and one-piece only, its cute big threaded knurled 'locking ring', that does absolutely nothing whatsoever, except enthrall little children with its Intrinsic By-Design True Actual Uselessness. 
 
YEESH!

I Now Challenge Each & Every Single Person On This Entire Planet To Prove Me Wrong In My Assertion That This So-Called 'Rotating' 'Lens Hood' IS TRULY BOGUS/PHONY AND CAN NEVER EVER ACTUALLY 'ROTATE' AS ADVERTISED, EVER. 

AND THAT MEANS EVERYONE!  ;)

AVOID THIS TOTALLY BOGUS/PHONY 'ROTATING' 'LENS HOOD' CAMERA ACCESSORY LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!  

THIS IS NEITHER AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR AMAZON, BY ANY MEANS,  
NOR AGAINST AMAZON EITHER.  

This Totally Bogus/Phony Rather Expensive 'Lens Hood' But Totally & Absolutely Useless As A Camera Accessory Was Found Here:  

WHERE IT SAYS, "Rear Locking Ring Allows You To Rotate The Hood In All Directions" IS A LIE!

 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072MTL25F