Lens Hoods on the Cheap?

A lens hood can be invaluable in cutting down on flare, an optical condition caused by shooting towards your light source. However, many lenses don’t come supplied with an appropriate hood, and a “real” lens hood from the lens manufacturer can be an expensive add-on (the Canon hood for the 20-35mm lens, for instance, is almost $45, and some are much, much more expensive!).

Enter lenshoods.co.uk/. This site has free(!) PDF documents that you can download and print to ues as templates to make your own lens hood for any one of a number of lenses (the Canon listing alone is over 50 lenses).