Is YOUR Cap Tethered?
Oct 26, 2017 21:21:15 #
I used to tether it, but I got tired of it hanging there. Now, I just stick it in my pocket.
Chris T wrote:
If so, do you use the kind that goes around the lens, or the kind that's attached to a strap lug on your body? ...
If you don't use either kind ... what do you DO with your cap, when you're shooting?
If you don't use either kind ... what do you DO with your cap, when you're shooting?
Oct 26, 2017 21:25:34 #
Oct 26, 2017 21:46:16 #
When not in use, I keep my lens cap in a small steel safe with wheels which, in turn, is tethered to my camera bag. This is my second identical set up. the first went down when the canoe capsized.
Oct 26, 2017 21:50:43 #
Oct 26, 2017 22:04:25 #
Chris T wrote:
If so, do you use the kind that goes around the lens, or the kind that's attached to a strap lug on your body? ...
If you don't use either kind ... what do you DO with your cap, when you're shooting?
If you don't use either kind ... what do you DO with your cap, when you're shooting?
Oct 26, 2017 22:06:13 #
Chris T wrote:
If so, do you use the kind that goes around the lens, or the kind that's attached to a strap lug on your body? ...
If you don't use either kind ... what do you DO with your cap, when you're shooting?
If you don't use either kind ... what do you DO with your cap, when you're shooting?
I used to have it dangling, but it was bad for my image as a serious photographer, so now I put it in my shirt pocket.
Oct 26, 2017 22:10:47 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
John_F wrote:
When I was a kid, mom tethered mine to my coat collar.
Sounds like maybe it was you who was being tethered.
Oct 26, 2017 23:01:04 #
Oct 26, 2017 23:05:35 #
cochese wrote:
All of my lenses have 77mm caps/filters. I bought a cheap UV filter, bad mistake but that's another story. It came with a little vinyl pouch just the right size for a lens cap. I put the cap in it and then into a pocket. No lint or sand on the cap, or less chance of it anyway.
Sounds like you hit on a tidy little solution, there, Cochese ....
Good for you!
Oct 26, 2017 23:08:52 #
Shoeless_Photographer wrote:
I used to tether it, but I got tired of it hanging there. Now, I just stick it in my pocket.
Oh, okay, Shoeless ...
I used to tether, too ...
Now, I stick it in the pocket of my Kangaroos ...
But, I guess - that wouldn't work for you, huh, Shoeless ?
Oct 26, 2017 23:12:16 #
John_F wrote:
When I was a kid, mom tethered mine to my coat collar.
Wrong cap, John ...
LENS cap !!!!!!
Oct 26, 2017 23:15:16 #
aellman wrote:
I used to have it dangling, but it was bad for my image as a serious photographer, so now I put it in my shirt pocket.
Another one, overly concerned with "image" - are you, Aellman?
I dunno, though ... to me - it shows people only my concern about possibly losing my cap ...
I don't see that as a hurtful image, in any way, whatsoever ...
Oct 27, 2017 01:44:00 #
Streets wrote:
When not in use, I keep my lens cap in a small steel safe with wheels which, in turn, is tethered to my camera bag. This is my second identical set up. the first went down when the canoe capsized.
This made me laugh! .... I hope that's what it was intended to do ...
Sorry you got wet ... but, I daresay - you had it coming!!!!
Oct 27, 2017 09:45:05 #
Here's an idea for a homemade pouch that will keep you from losing that pesky lens cap.
Oct 27, 2017 12:49:35 #
Amazing discussion. I’ve learned stuff that has never crossed my mind. Lint in your pocket? Who would have thought? Face the cap outwards so it doesn’t pick up body moisture? I live in a rain forest. I’m most often wet through and through. I threw away all my front lens caps over twenty years ago. Before that I dropped them and lost them and they piled up in the bottom of my camera bags. In forty five years I’ve never had a lens problem a lens cap would have solved. Chuck them. Problem solved.
Chris T wrote:
If so, do you use the kind that goes around the lens, or the kind that's attached to a strap lug on your body? ...
If you don't use either kind ... what do you DO with your cap, when you're shooting?
If you don't use either kind ... what do you DO with your cap, when you're shooting?
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