Never lose your lens cap again with HACkxTACK

Do people really lose lens caps? I have never lost them...
Whats the difference between keeping in your pocket / bag or attaching it to the silly magnet?
Those, who do lose lens caps frequently will also forget to attach their caps to this magnetic clip..

Just learn some magic... after removing the lens cap, make it disappear into thin air with the flick of your hand. And when you need it, just pluck it out of thin air with your fingers. Problem solved.

Here is a simple solution to the lens cap storage problem. When you remove your camera's lens cap, simply place it back inside the case or bag that you just took your camera from. If, however, your camera bag has multiple compartments, put it in the same slot that your camera sits in.

Problem solved.

I have never lost a lens cap with this simple method.

David Elliott Lewis, an event photographer in San Francisco

I don't want in any way to hurt this company business, but in Japan, there are a lot of simple and cheap devices to not lose one's lens cap. These lenses cap holders (カメラレンズキャップ ホルダー) are: http://tinyurl.com/pl2oycd

My favorite one: http://tinyurl.com/p46mq5a

That being said, some people will prefer this device instead of that one, and I hope there will be enough money for every maker.

glue a piece of velcro on your lens cap and a second one on a clip and you have the same result with a few cents investment. Doesn't look so fancy of course.

Good idea for condoms. stick'm on your glasses while you get undressed in the dark.

Ha Ha, practical or not, a few people actually make stuff but the great majority just criticize on the internet.

I feel like I will never retrieve this lost time in my life reading this.

If you use a film rangefinder, you can just leave your lens cap on and shoot away... this will also save you lots of time on post-processing! (Once you get into this habit, you can cut back on film costs as well.)

A bit late for April first, but a nice prank nontheless. Touche!

What a frivolous product; and the price $24 CAD.

What's really saddening is that DP Review actually posts this product on its website.

Pockets are the best lens cap keepers ever invented!

It’s forty years since I used a FRONT lens cap. I leave them in some drawer at home. But I always, on all lenses, use threaded sun shades which never comes off. I never smudge a glass; the sun shade effectively keeps fingers and rain away. I can stand the lenses on the sun shade when I switch the BACK lens cap, which is very convenient.

I can buy 10 lens caps for about $10 on ebay: http://r.ebay.com/UCfrqC

Or, spend over $20 to not loose 1, assuming I don't forget where I put that doodad with the magnet (I don't use a camera strap, nor do I wear a tie).

I always make it a point to stuff extra caps in my bag.

Hm, I always keep the lens cap in my right hand pants pocket. Never lost one.
To me, it seems that this gimmick would make me lose the cap, unless it were a VERY strong magnet. And a very strong magnet near an electronic device such as a delicate digital camera is never a good idea.

Talk about finding an over engineered expensive solution to a problem that rarely exists.
And I note it took two designers.....

I NEVER EVER use a Lens cap ! ! !

These guys gave mea a very valuable DIY ideea :)
Thanks!

I stopped bothering with front caps a long time ago.

Either the camera/lens is in the bag and doesn't need a cap, unless you keep your keys and knifes in the same bag.

Or it's in your hand and you're shooting.

OK, there's a 3rd option when the camera is hanging on your shoulder and you may bang it into things, but in that case you don't deserve a camera.

Before I stopped using those caps, I did wonder why no 1st party manufacturer doesn't simply provide some strings to attach the cap to the lens. I guess they really hope that people will not only use them, but buy their $40 original ones instead of $1 copies.

Of course it's in "the last place you look for it." Once you've found it, why on Earth would you continue looking for it anywhere else?

Duh!

"What are those things on your neck tie?"

"Oh! That!... well, this one is my wife's hairpin, this one is a paperclip from my office desk, this one is some ferrous soil, when I rolled around the grass to take some low angle shots, and this one is... wait! Where's my lens cap?"

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Yeah, 3M already solved this problem quite some time ago.

However this product could be great for randomly erasing the ID strips on my credit cards.

Years ago I accidentally sat on my shutter release and discovered an ingenious way to take photos without exhausting my index finger. Nowadays, I run the cable under my shirt and tape the release to my butt cheek. You can always spot me as "that guy who seems to be uncomfortably sitting and adjusting constantly."

Without Kickstarter, I would have never considered presenting my product, which will be called the PLOP-SHOT, to the masses.

Some ideas are great and others are not...but I am glad we have a means to try...

Kickstarter is so liberating for so many absurd projects.
No one want to risk their own resources to allow the imagination run wild.
Of course, some start-ups are interesting and potentially beneficial but this one is doubtfully one of them.

Apart from having a truly awful name, it is an overengineerd solution to a problem that I solved many, many years ago with another hi-tech solution called "velcro".

A small strip of the 'loop' side on each lens cap and a small strip of 'hook' end on my camera strap. I put one on the inside of the top flap of my camera bag too.

Attractive design but for about $3 on eBay I bought a pack of 10 lens cap savers which are nothing more than self-adhesive buttons attached to an elastic band. It would cost me $70 to save the same number of lens caps with the HxT.
Then again it might appeal to some who value style over just practicality. Nothing wrong with that if you have the money.

Kickstarter <> pre-order.

(as all the people who have backed projects that either weren't funded or were funded but then blew up will attest)

I don't object to this on practical or style grounds, but it seems a bit expensive compared to just buying a fistful of generic Chinese lens caps. The perversity of the world being what it is, now my lens caps are nearly valueless (they cost next to nothing and I already have replacements anyway) I never lose them!

Think I would rather just lose the cap.

Pockets will also do the job and are free.

What a wonderful news story. It warms my heart to see the reemergence of the long lost unity of photograghers everywhere. There's no strife regarding evfs vs ovfs, no dslr vs mirrorless, no rabid fanboys or evangelists. Instead all stand in solidarity on a common front, unflinchingly and unanimously opposed to the HACKxTACK. Today I'm proud to call you my brothers and sisters.

A real innovation would be automatic lens caps like many compacts have, but I guess it's kind of complicated to do.

3M Dual-Lock Velcro. Ultra-tight! and can be attached to whatever surface

What if you lose your tie tack? What if I like wearing turtle neck shirts? Will the magnet interfere with your pacemaker? Will people be asking me "what the hell is that on your chest?" There are some serious, unanswered questions that need to be addressed here.

Another commerce-induced solution to a non-existent problem.

"You can pre-order a HACKxTACK from $24CAD".

You can also get 4 aftermarket lens hoods for $24 on eBay.

Probably those photographers who wear ties lose caps. I don't have even one dress suit. I surely can afford it, and not one, I just don't need it: here in Russia photographers and cameramen are free from obeying dress code, whatever the level of the event is and whoever the camera guy is, at least I click near Mr. Russian prsdnt, diplomats, dignitaries and newlyweds wearing hoodie or t-shirt, cargo pants and casual boots. I can be the only male of the species around not wearing suit and tie, and no one gives a damn, because I'm photographer. For more than 20 years with camera I lost something like one lens cap in absolutely tie-excluding conditions: I sunk it in the White Sea.

Probably hipsters will like this. They love ties, don't like pockets and love spending money on strange impractical gadgets. The only caveat is that society won't tolerate 82mm lens cap as a tie pin at the event or in place where even the photographer must wear tie these days (and I can't imagine such).

Left breast pocket.
Left front pants pocket.
No engineer required.

I'm lazy and taking caps on and off is too much work for me.

I use clear lens caps on all my lenses. B+W UV MRC. Not to protect the lenses, although they might, but so I can leave the caps at home and also not worry about keeping the lens glass clean.

I'm not a real photographer but I occasionally take real pictures.

so... people don't have pockets?

If you can be disciplined to always put the lens cap on that magnet, why not just always put the cap in your left pants pocket?