lens caps (Page 10): Pocket!

throughrhettseyes Loc: Rowlett, TX

Pocket!

Murray Loc: New Westminster

Pocket for me as well.

RoMar999

In put a picece of Velcro on the cap and attach it too my bag; that has a sewn in Velcro strip on the bag... works well!!

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

RoMar999 wrote:

In put a picece of Velcro on the cap and attach it too my bag; that has a sewn in Velcro strip on the bag... works well!!

Why not just put it in the bag instead of attaching it on the outside? Velcroed items like a lens cap could be dislodged very easily by say a branch if you are walking in the woods , a narrow doorway in a building or a person that rubs against your camera bag in the street.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

I'm beginning to suspect that the OP's reason for this thread was to determine how many pages it would take before it degenerated to name calling with no more useful comment. Think may just delete any thread over 3 or 4 pages without reading it.

carl hervol Loc: jacksonville florida

you can Velcro on the cap the other on you camera strap or on your for head or a wrist band good luck

jwohlhueter

Hate to buck the trend, but my lens cap is only taken off while shooting. Held on with an elastic strap and string. I shoot outdoors mostly landscape. When I'm just walking or out hiking to locations my camera is always at my chest. Never packed away in my pack. It's there to protect the lens. Rain and mist, branches, brush and the unexpected. I've had two workshop pros suggest I pack it away while walking. But to me there is too much to capture. I can get off shots and don't hold up the group. I shoot just as many shots along the trail as I do at our setup points. If it's windy I can hold it in my palm and still work the camera.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

AndyH wrote:

I believe the guy with a lens cap dangling from his person would look like a schlemiel.

Andy

Yes! Perhaps that's a more benign word. A schlemeil can still be a nice person but without style or savvy. That word has no anatomical connotations.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Longshadow wrote:

In American, it's a foolish or contemptible person.

OK...but why would a perfectly nice person be considered foolish or contemptible, just because he prefers a tethetrd lens cap. That was my point!

I learned my "Ametican" in Brooklyn- we had our own language with all kinds of words derived from a multitude of languages, cultures and colloquialisms that seeped in and eventually became part of American English. Very colorful!
Multiculturalsm!

latebloomer Loc: Topeka, KS

ProMaster has a n elastic band that goes around the lens and is attached to the cap. It works and I have several. i am not the greatest fan of promaster; on the other hand, I like this product.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

E.L.. Shapiro wrote:

OK...but why would a perfectly nice person be considered foolish or contemptible, just because he prefers a tethetrd lens cap. That was my point!

I learned my "Ametican" in Brooklyn- we had our own language with all kinds of words derived from a multitude of languages, cultures and colloquialisms that seeped in and eventually became part of American English. Very colorful!
Multiculturalsm!

Like wearing socks with sandals in the late '60s???
Matter of opinion?
They sold cap keepers in the 70s also.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Longshadow wrote:

They sold cap keepers in the 70s also.

They sold pants with pockets too.

Andy

Barny

The lens stays on the camera. A nikon 70-200mm and a nikon D500, a clear filter and the lens hood in the inservice position. Camera is never switched off even when removing or replacing memory cards or batteries Camera 2 is a D7200 with a 18-300mm or sigma 17-70mmin the same condition. Putting lens caps in pockets is ridiculous, full of fluff and dust. The best way to ruin cameras and lenses. Fortunately the 70-200 and the D500 are sealed and have been used in the pouring rain.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Mac wrote:

I just take it off and stick it in my pocket.

It depends on the camera. For my Trips...string it is...for my Nikons, no string and mostly no caps at all.

leftj Loc: Texas

Barny wrote:

The lens stays on the camera. A nikon 70-200mm and a nikon D500, a clear filter and the lens hood in the inservice position. Camera is never switched off even when removing or replacing memory cards or batteries Camera 2 is a D7200 with a 18-300mm or sigma 17-70mmin the same condition. Putting lens caps in pockets is ridiculous, full of fluff and dust. The best way to ruin cameras and lenses. Fortunately the 70-200 and the D500 are sealed and have been used in the pouring rain.

So where do you keep your lens cap when it is not on the lens?