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A few words of warning about the 50mm 1.8 EF-II "with the hood on": the HOOD has been implicated in hundreds of incidents of what Canon refers to as "barrel separation". When the 50/1.8-II model is fitted with its lens hood, the pairing has a disconcerting habit of causing the lens to snap into TWO, large pieces, due to the exact way the lens fits, and the way the hood fits onto the lens
This is exactly true. While I did own the hood I never actually used it. I couldn't understand why you would want to elongate the barrel, all I could see is that at some point it was going to fall out or be forced off due to the hood. Fall out it did, I was changing the lens above a table and accidentally dropped it. It fell a massive 6" and just fell apart. That was the end of that lens. I've dropped my DSLR and 50mm 1.4 down a flight of stairs, that's still working fine.