Can use of the rubber lens hood cause major vignetting in an indoors picture?

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I was taking some shots as the church photographer of fellow members and found out that when I shot the indoor, low-light pictures without a flash I was getting vignetting in the final pictures. Can this occur because of the lens hood being used indoors or because of the problematic/natural performance of the M-Rokkor 40mm being shot at f2? Thanks a lot!

-- Alfie Wang (leica_phile@hotmail.com), February 17, 2002

Answers

It sounds more like you were underexposing which accentuates the natural vignetting of a wide open lens

-- John Collier (jbcollier@powersurfr.com), February 17, 2002.

Do you use the original hood? If you are using a generic hood this might be the problem (then the vignetting will be worse as you close the apperture down)

-- Kaj Froling (kf@draupnir.dk), February 18, 2002.

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