Never lose your lens cap again with HACkxTACK

Great!

Another item for the sales counter person in a camera store that will be required by management to force down your wide aperture throat.

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Just put the cap in your back/shirt pocket. I never lost one.

"Usually it's in the very last place you look for it. "
Well if you continue to look for it after you found it then this product is definitely for you.
I think a small bell and some super glue might work just as well.

Interesting. As photographers, we (I) can sometimes get a little caught up in gadgets that may help make our job easier. I can easily say that this is not something I'd consider. My old fashioned pockets do a great job of holding my lens caps for me. Wow, I just saved $24.

Real photogs don't use UV filters, lens caps, neck straps or wrist straps. They do use lens hoods.

Sorry but anyone wearing a tie with a lens cap attached cries out I am a photo jerk.

foolproof method to never lose your lenscap? Never take it out, i don't.

All I need now is a roll of good 3M double sided tape, and small pcs of magnet.... And I won't be surprised the Chinese has already started production yesterday..... after they see the webpage....

Another useless thing that only hipsters will buy

Lol. Wearing this will make people think your name is Hack Tack.

8,000$ to support this? Wut.

These are for lookign stylish only. You either:

(a) Place the lens cap in your pocker.
(b) Drop it into the space formerly occupied by the lens in the camera bag, along with the rear cap (preferred).

If you lose the cap, you buy another.

$5? If sticking the cap is your thing, then you can accomplish the same effect for $0.50 using velcro. Just stick one strip on the cap and the other on your camera bag or neck strap. Personally, I prefer putting the cap in my right hand rear pocket; there's no need to remember if you're systematic enough to always store the cap in the same place.

Just don't get your credit card near the magnet. Wiped clean! HackxTack strikes again!

Can't help noticing there's a lot of photos of the cool wood clip on ties and jackets - not so many photos of how weird it must look having a lens cap stuck to your tie, jacket etc...

And pockets don't work why?

I like it, but it's a niche product.

A lens cap tether doesn't look as good, but it's more effective and can be had for $2.

Um... a strong magnetic strip on the end of the lens cap... Not a good idea...

I can just picture forgetting the clip and dropping the lens cap in my pocket with the memory card full of a couple of day's worth of vacation pictures...

Also, remember to keep this out of the hands of any young kids. Swallowing strong magnets never ends well..

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/08/08/210200382/swallowing-tiny-magnets-can-lead-to-big-trouble-for-kids

I'm sure I'd sooner forget that thing at home than losing a cap.

But that's not all...Hack 'n Tack is also a tie tack, refrigerator magnet and fishing lure. The kids will have hours of fun playing with Hack & Tack, while learning the secrets of magnetism.

What would have taken this from good to great would be if these guys were located in Hackensack, New Jersey but it's still pretty cool.

excuse me have you seen my hack-tack? Oh, I wish someone made some sort of gadget that keeps track of your hack-tack.

....now searching ebay for magnets and glue.....

This thing works with strong magnets. Not sure whether I want such magnetic materials next to my sensitive lens electronics and aperture blades...

its called - a pocket

Next item? The HackxTack Finder. In case you lose your HackxTack. Which is probably sitting right next to your lens cap. Ha!

I hope you guys make a million and prove me wrong, it seems to me that the initial order ought to come with more than 1 lens cover tab. 5-8 might be more like it. At $5 per additional lens cover tab, let's see that would come to $65 to take care of all my lenses. Price is too high for me. jmho By the way will the tab fit between the Nikon center pinch tabs cause thats right where the Nikon embossed logo is? May have trouble sticking there.

I need to contact these geniuses about a similar idea I have...a mechanism for which protects your shirt pockets from leaking pens using waterproof materials, it'll be a similar hit.

What? No submersible 30-day transponder? No LED lights with your initials in fancy lettering? No racing stripe?

I don't need this. I have lost all my lens caps already. I use a hood to protect all my front elements

I think I'll pass, good thinking but not necessary. Center pinch lens caps are dirty cheap on eBay, I always have a few extra ones (77mm) in ThinkTank. I personally just don't see it.

I am afraid I will lose the cap holder before anything else...

Hmmmmm ... no ... I do not think so. Seems somewhat too clumsy to have the lens cap hanging like that.

Oh my, they're even a third on the way to their target on Kickstarter as well. Didn't expect to see that.

Oh well... I predict that - if the project gets funded - a year after the first batch has been shipped, no more than 5% of the ones backing it can still remember where they put their HACKxTACK. And they're back to where they started.

Also, if a HACKxTACK costs $10 (I suspect it costs a bit more), can't you get 10 cheapo lens caps for that, use those and keep the original stored away in the lens box for when you sell the lens some day?

Think I'll pass ...

I am sure there is a market for people who would buy these producst. How are they called? Hipsters? Wait, no, there is another word for it...

Really? "It's usually in the last place you look for it?"

Besides the fact that it's my line, how can this product be taken seriously with a lead-in like that? If it weren't for the Kickstarter page, I wouldn't believe this at all!

I thought people only lost lens caps when they are attached to the camera and you bump into something without noticing that makes it come loose, not when you have taken it off to take pictures.

As we all know, you can't take pictures with a lens cap on, so it should not stay on unless you change lenses or put the camera away in a bag, pocket or under your jacket when it starts pouring down.

I think most people know exactly where they put it too, so this sounds to me like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Not to mention the "tack" in the name might easily be short for "tacky", for it doesn't exactly look cool wearing your lens cap like that.

If you can remember putting a lens cap on the tack, you can also easily remember putting it in the same pocket every time you take it off the lens. If you're the kind of person who forgets easily, you'd most likely forget to bring your HACKxTACK anyway...

Nice thought - but this needs KICKSTARTER? You can buy strong tiny neodymium magnets by the hundred for a few quid, and use Araldite to fix them to most anything - including lens caps, pieces of wood, tie clips ...

Brian