Ever since I got my new camera I have been using the kit lens that came with it. Then, a few days ago I remembered that I had been given an old zoom lens by somebody who didn't want it before I was gifted this camera.
The lens looked like this- 
When I started using it I was puzzled by something: the case or whatever that was at the front of the lens would come in the way and make it difficult to zoom and focus. I tried removing it but it wouldn't budge and gave up afraid that it might break. But I just couldn't figure out why it was there. Finally I looked it up on the internet and found out that the case was a lens hood, a device used at the end of a lens to block the sun and prevent glare or lens flare.
Then I learned a vital piece of information, lens hoods were designed so they fit onto the lens facing outward for normal use as well as backward, so that it occupies less space when stored. So this thing could be removed! I went back and tried harder, and with more confidence, to remove it. Then I managed to attach it back the right way -
The idea is pretty neat, it spreads outward while being used and conveniently fits the other way when not, taking up only as much space as the lens itself.
I felt happy at having solved the problem, or rather, correcting my silly mistake. However, it is only from our mistakes that we learn right? 
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