Will a filter or step-up ring prevent a hood from fitting on the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM?

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I’m buying a hood for my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM and already use screw-in filters. I’ve read that hoods are usually lens-specific rather than just based on filter thread size. Will a normal filter still let the proper hood fit? Also, I have 67mm filters from another lens and was wondering about using a step-up ring from 49mm. Can the ES-68 hood still be used with a step-up ring, or would I need a different hood?

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I've never seen a conventional hood that will allow use of step-up rings. About the closest you might come to that for most lenses would be a filter system with a holder, such as the Cokin P-series system, that uses various step up rings for each of your lenses and offers attachments to the filter holder that shade the front of the lens from off-axis light. They are sometimes referred to as matte boxes.

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In the case of the EF 50mm f/1.8 STM, though, the specific design might let you get by with something such as you envision.

The Canon hood specified for the lens is the ES-68 that attaches in a bayonet style on the outside barrel of the lens. The filter threads for the lens are on the inner barrel that extends and retracts with focusing movements. There is a larger than typical difference between the diameters of the filter threads and the inside of the lens hood. You may be able to squeeze a step up ring in there and attach a larger filter, but I doubt you'll be able to go from 49mm to 67mm because the difference in the thread and outer barrel radiuses appears to be less than 9mm. You could measure your lens to be sure, though.

Another option might be to use an aftermarket screw in hood that attaches to the lens' filter threads. You would then attach a step up ring and filter to the the threads on the front end of the spin-on hood if the hood has them. The front threads are probably in the 52-55mm range but might be large. Just measure before you get a step up ring.

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For the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM, the proper hood is the ES-68, and it mounts to the outside of the lens barrel rather than into the filter threads. That means a normal screw-in filter does not usually prevent the hood from fitting.

From user experience in the answers, a 49mm filter works fine with the ES-68 hood, and a 49-58mm step-up ring can also be left on while still using the hood. However, stepping up farther can become a problem: a 58-67mm step-up ring was reported to block the ES-68 from fitting.

So:

  • standard filters: generally fine
  • 49mm to 58mm step-up: works
  • adapting all the way to 67mm: likely no hood fit with the ES-68

In general, lens hoods are designed for the specific lens and mounting method, so using a larger hood meant for another lens is not a reliable solution and may not mount correctly. If you want to share much larger filters across lenses, a separate filter-holder system may be more practical than trying to combine large step-up rings with a dedicated hood.

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