What is The Universal Lens Hood? 

At some point in shooting, we utilize lens hoods to enhance our shot and/or protect our lenses. The Universal Lens Hood is the best way to both enhance and protect your camera lenses. Period.

It’s designed to fit 99% of camera lenses. It holds any sized circular filter and can help enhance any photo. Truly a universal, durable and multi-functional product backed by a lifetime warranty from the company that has set out to keeping your photography gear KUVRD (pronounced ‘covered’).

Now you can travel with less gear and less stress knowing you can remove any glare/reflection from any shot, enhance your photo using any sized circular filter with any sized lens and still have the added protection wanted against the elements.

Here at KUVRD (pronounced ‘covered’), our passion has been to outfit modern explorers to move forward with less.

Going on two and half years now, we’ve been doing just that by designing innovative camera accessories and successfully funding them here on Kickstarter.

The goal has always been the same; to create tools that help eliminate photographer’s anxieties and enhance their workflow. And now, more than ever before, we’re thrilled to state, “We’ve done it again”. And this time, with our most innovative product yet;

The Universal Lens Hood.

Testimonials

Kelly Lopez

Warranty

The Universal Lens Hood does have a warranty. In fact, a lifetime warranty! For as long as you own the product, you’re 100% insured against defects in material and workmanship. However, we do NOT provide a warranty against damage or any other defects/issues caused to your lenses WHILE using or NOT using the Universal Lens Hood. In addition, we will not replace lost or stolen Universal Lens Hoods.

If your lens breaks while using our product, we are not liable for your camera gear, its repair/replacement, nor act as a financial insurance agency against potentially harmful issues to your camera gear, especially your lenses. The Universal Lens Hoods acts as an enhancing tool to prevent glare and help to avert elements from potentially contacting your lens. That is it. We strongly advise you seek out and invest in insurance for your gear just as any other professional would do in any other industry! 🙂

Customs & Duties

Unfortunately, we cannot mark any pledge/reward as a ‘gift’. It is illegal to do so. In addition, import duties and taxes are NOT INCLUDED in our reward levels. These charges vary by country and are completely out of our control. We are shipping the Universal Lens Hood all over the world and it is impossible for us to build the various customs charges into the multiple reward levels of Kickstarter.

But, this online tool can help you calculate additional costs;

http://www.importcalculator.com

Remember, we are the creators of KUVRD and the Universal Lens Hood, not international customs. You can use this tool as estimates when determining additional costs in receiving our products.

Risks and Challenges

Our biggest foreseeable challenge will be properly calculating, negotiating, and fixating costs and pricing with manufacturers for materials. Silicone is a rather volatile material, where, based on municipal laws, seasons and other related material-based industries, much of the cost of material used in the Universal Lens Hood can almost double overnight thanks to some shift or change in one of those aforementioned factors.

Luckily, we’ve already made a Purchase Order for 20,000 units of the Universal Lens Hood! Hopefully if we need to make another PO for this Campaign, based on the demand and current pricing of silicone, we’ll be able to fixate or even decrease the unit cost! Our second biggest challenge is determining a realistic ‘estimated date of delivery’. Based on our history with our current chosen manufacturers, we can have a unit created and in our hands within 45 days. Taking into account holidays, quantity of units, priority of our order with the manufacturer and shipping to customers worldwide, we gave ourselves a buffer of an additional 60 days to handle any ‘hiccups’ throughout the process.

There are always unforeseeable risks, setbacks and hiccups which is why we plan to be transparent and do everything we can to keep our customers (you, the backer) happy.