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.
Chris TLoc: from England across the pond to New England
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 ....
Chris TLoc: from England across the pond to New England
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!!!!
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?