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Lens cap safer/keeper/holder?
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lewiedude2
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I put it squarely into one of my front pockets.
Vic Chapman
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Most of my caps fit the 3rd party hoods.
I remove them and put them straight into a pocket.
The OEM goes in the box in case I sell the lens (only done that with 3Fuji lenses - 18mm, 16-50mm XC and 18-55mm XF).
The only time I mislaid a cap was when showing my Fuji gear to a friend and he found a lens cap in his pocket when he got home.
Vic
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I remove them and put them straight into a pocket.
The OEM goes in the box in case I sell the lens (only done that with 3Fuji lenses - 18mm, 16-50mm XC and 18-55mm XF).
The only time I mislaid a cap was when showing my Fuji gear to a friend and he found a lens cap in his pocket when he got home.
Vic
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The sky is full of holes that let the rain get in, the holes are very small - that's why the rain is thin.
Spike Milligan. Writer, comedian, poet, Goon. 1918 - 2002
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for some of my lenses stopped using lens caps as started using Op-tech USA Fast Caps : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006I5LA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Bobo Hodls
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It goes in either my left front or left rear pocket in my pants. If I put it anywhere else I might not find it right away, and it could get lost (say, when taking other things out of stuffed jacket pockets), but that's how I track caps to limit cap frustrations [g].
If I wear rain pants w/o pockets over jeans. . . [sputter-fuss!]
chaimav
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First, I replace Fuji lens caps with the better fitting generic pinch types. Then I use a cap clip (I shoot Fuji with wrist straps, but they work at least as well on a neck strap)...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MS08HLA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
You will lose a Fuji cap when placed on the lens, as the fit is nearly always poor. You can never lose a cap that you put away for safe keeping (preserved for lens resale).
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JNR
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MS08HLA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
You will lose a Fuji cap when placed on the lens, as the fit is nearly always poor. You can never lose a cap that you put away for safe keeping (preserved for lens resale).
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JNR
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lewiedude2
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The caps for both my 16-55 and 18-55(when I rarely use it for planned video) fit perfectly fine. You just had to talk to the both of them and tell them to behave. Where else would they live with such nice surroundings?
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Front pocket of my T-shirt.
e268
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I seldom use the lens cap. I put the lens hood on and leave them on, even when I put them in my camera bag. The lens hood provides far better protection than the cap.
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Agree completely. I've never lost a cap because they're always safely at home in the box they came in. And I'm also team #nofilter and have never scratched a lens.
jm10
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As some suggested it may be best to keep the original cap in the box. Most generic pinch caps work much better; mine is on a "leash" so I have not lost one yet. You can google it...
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Hama Lens Cap Holder Elastic Strap for All Lens Diameters Length 21 cm Black: Amazon.de: Electronics & Photo
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Gaber
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Thanks for the heads up on these, I never heard of them before. I always put the caps in my pocket. The problem, as I see it, is not misplacing the caps but having them fall off when you're not aware because you brushed against something and it falls off and you didn't know and walk away from it since they have such poor retention. My worst offender is the 27mm pancake. It pops off very easily. I think I'll try one of these on that lens and see how I like it.
phototeacher
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If only using one lens, then it goes in my pocket. If carrying a bag with additional lenses, it goes in the bag, since I will have to go into that bag to get the next lens anyway, so the cap is there. Also use hoods, so the cap is really just extra protection when the lens is stored. I find the cap's swinging when dangling large diameter caps by a leash or 'capkeeper' to be a distraction
Greg7579
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This is a major thing with me. I take a lens cap off about 47 times a day and change lenses a lot when I'm travel-shooting. I always stick it in my pocket. But I do lose them.
The back cap too. I throw it in the bag where the lens just left from and when the lens on the camera comes off I put it on the departing lens and into the bag it goes. I lose those too.
I also lose eyecups as I take them off from time to time.
I hate losing a lens cap on a trip.
I lose lens hoods too. I went one entire trip without a hood on the Brick and that was not good. That lens got banged into walls, floors, beds, desks, wine bottle, Teresa - you name it. I needed that shock absorber.
A lens hood saved me yesterday. I tripped and fell shooting my new GFX 50r and the 45 mm lens lens cap was the first point of contact with the sidewalk. Fell hard. Hurt my shoulder a little. Skinned my knee. GFX 50r undamaged and lens OK. Fuji lens hoods are pretty good shock absorbers, despite the fact that I have ridiculed them over the years.
I hate attaching lens caps to strings or to the camera. That is a rookie move. Better to just lose them.
Oh, and I am proud to report that in 45 years I have never lost a camera or a lens, but I have dropped lots of lenses (never a camera).
One time I left the Brick on a church pew in Spain after a lens change. Went back 45 minutes later and it was still there along with my hat and sunglasses.
Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums
The back cap too. I throw it in the bag where the lens just left from and when the lens on the camera comes off I put it on the departing lens and into the bag it goes. I lose those too.
I also lose eyecups as I take them off from time to time.
I hate losing a lens cap on a trip.
I lose lens hoods too. I went one entire trip without a hood on the Brick and that was not good. That lens got banged into walls, floors, beds, desks, wine bottle, Teresa - you name it. I needed that shock absorber.
A lens hood saved me yesterday. I tripped and fell shooting my new GFX 50r and the 45 mm lens lens cap was the first point of contact with the sidewalk. Fell hard. Hurt my shoulder a little. Skinned my knee. GFX 50r undamaged and lens OK. Fuji lens hoods are pretty good shock absorbers, despite the fact that I have ridiculed them over the years.
I hate attaching lens caps to strings or to the camera. That is a rookie move. Better to just lose them.
Oh, and I am proud to report that in 45 years I have never lost a camera or a lens, but I have dropped lots of lenses (never a camera).
One time I left the Brick on a church pew in Spain after a lens change. Went back 45 minutes later and it was still there along with my hat and sunglasses.
Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums
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