Tailor made solutions for your 7" Aero lens.

The JoLo Lens Hood.

NEW with Build in Filter Holder for regular 77 mm filter

providing unique capabilities for your Aero lens.

Helps to reduce stray light which can cause flare in less-than ideal lighting conditions.

Slip on lens hood for easy and fast mounting.

A lens "hood" is usually round, rectangular or tulip shape and protrudes from the lens. Some may require a special mounting and are generally available exclusively from the lens or camera manufacturer. However, as the Aero lens was originally designed for air-reconnaissance with the camera mounted in the bottom of the airplane with the lens pointed to the earth, no lens hood was necessary. However for its new artistic task, the Aero lens needs some device to keep the unwanted light from the lens surface. You may know that there exist some options to tackle such a problem.

1) A shade can be anything that shades or "flags" light from entering the lens. Shades can be found on matte boxes or fitted from improvised materials such as construction paper, aluminum foil, cardboard or you might even use your hand to create some shade above the lens.

2) A compendium is a bellows with a metal lens holder that can be placed and attached on the lens and pulled out up to a certain length. A filter holder for 4x4 inch gelatin filters would complete the compendium. 

3) A matte box is a camera accessory that essentially does the same thing as a lens hood  and is also mount in front of the lens, but usually includes adjustable fins called French flags. These can be moved and adjusted to reduce unwanted lens flare caused by lights or the sun. An advantage of the matte box is that original lens filters can be used.  

4) The most effective and easier way however is using a tailor made lens hood such as the JoLo 70 mm especially designed and made for use with the 7 inch Aero Lens. 

This JoLo 70 mm lens hood prevents lens flare that means stray light from falling on the huge Aero lens surface. Together with the right filter mounted it will produce the striking effect and greatly increase the contrast to provide unique capabilities.

The demand of professional photographers
resulted in the design and manufacturing
of the new JoLo lens hood with integrated filter holder.

First prototype and finally the finished product.

Years ago I discontinued the making of a 7 inch Kodak Aero lens hood. There were two reasons to stop the production. First of all it was far from easy to find a manufacturer to produce these items in small quantities and secondly the lens hood needed a special device to serve as a filter holder. Both items were too expensive and not easy in use. Working without a lens hood and filter the Aero lens shows its shortcoming in bright daylight. Wide open diaphragm and modern fast film prevents the use of this fast lens.
The only solution for this problem is a lens hood with integrated filter holder for regular 77 mm filters which are world wide available in every photo shop on the web. These filters are able to balance the exposure exactly the way the professional photographer wants it. Luckily I found a manufacturer who shared my passion for photography and together we developed the new JoLo lens hood with integrated filter holder.

Using regular 77 mm

filters with the JoLo lens hood

As mentioned before, the advantage of the matte box or compendium is the use of original lens filters. However, original Aero lens filters has become very rare and if available they only fit to the front of the flat Kodak 7" Aero lens shade, without any additional feature to reduce unwanted light. To solve this problem I designed the JoLo lens Hood with integrated filter holder.

In certain circumstances filters are really indispensable. Here an example with and without a polarization filter.
By eliminating reflections, the polarizing filter will tend to make water and other reflective surfaces more transparent. 
Left photo taken with the 7 inch Aero lens without polarization filter.
Right photo equipped with the polarization filter mounted into the JoLo lens hood. 

Ilford FP4  f=2,5 - 1/50 sec.

How it works

"Drop in" easy mounting.

Originally the Aero lens was produced with two different lens surrounding bezels.
On the left photo the Aero lens surrounding bezel with notches and on the right photo a bezel with screws.
Both types are compatible to attach the JoLo 70 mm Lens Hood. 

Availability

 Due to the fact that the number of Aero lenses which are currently in circulation is unknown, the production of the JoLo lens boards and lens hoods is limited.
No question that I'm proud to be able to continue this work and being in the position to offer a new batch of lens boards and lens hoods.
Unfortunately no guarantee can be given that these products will be available in long-term. Make sure you get one or both of these unique products by using my order form.

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Release of the new JoLo Lens Hood.
Order now or contact me
to make a reservation
for the next batch.
 

This new indispensable JoLo Professional Lens hood. Filters can be placed on front or backside of the holder.
Made out of light 4 mm aluminium fits perfectly to the Kodak 7 inch Aero lens.
Including knurled nut attachment and hex fixing screw.
The integrated filter holder is part of the lens hood which has been manufactured out of one piece of aluminium.
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