Lens Cap, where to put it?

<p>Hi<br>

Does someone recommend me a way to store my lens cap while shooting? I do landscape photography and Ive lost two caps in my trips and I want to change how I deal with this.</p>

<p>Best regards<br>

JC</p>

<p>I put mine in my left hip pocket.</p>

<p>Any clean pocket will do. Just blow the dust off before you put it back on the lens.</p>

<p>Another left pocket person here, but the front pocket; be consistent so you can lay hands on it quickly. I find the little string attachments ('cap savers', etc.) to be far more trouble than they're worth.</p>

<p>Also, buy multiple copies of cheap lens caps. Some places sell 'side-button' ones for as little as a buck apiece. Pinch type caps are a little more.</p>

<p>I leave mine in the bag, or if I have one on, in a vest pocket. I use lens hoods and my bigger problem is what to do with the hood when I use a CP or a ND grad.</p>

<p>+1 left front pocket. Which pocket is less important than being consistent so you don't have to hunt for it. Just develop the habit, and you'll always know where it is.</p>

<p>+1 using generic lens caps. I use step-up rings on my 'under-77mm filter thread' lenses and so I use just one size of screw mount filter, so on trips I pack one spare generic 77mm lens cap. I haven't had a generic lens cap affect image quality since I quit shooting with rangefinder cameras. :)</p>

<p>Since my CPs and ND grads ride in my bag, if I'll use 'em, the lens hood usually goes back in the bag. In a pinch, with some lenses I can just reverse it. Collapsible rubber lens hoods sometimes solve this problem, depending on the lens.</p>

<p>Left hip pocket, unless wearing Levi's and shooting SLR/Rf (55 mm or smaller lens cap)... then in the change pocket (front right).</p>

<p>Pocket.</p>

<p>Man, this has got to be a new nadir in hand-holding advice, LOL.</p>

<p>Left Hip pocket.. or the camera bag.. For me.</p>

<p>I'm Left-Handed. The lens cap goes in my RIGHT front pocket.<br>

JC - Do whatever works well for you. Just be consistent so you can find it when you need it. :)</p>

 

<p>I leave them all in a drawer somewhere.</p>

<p>Right front pocket when lazy or back in the camera bag when not. Usually in right front pocket.</p>

<p>I use a Sima CapKeeper. It's a tether with an elastic band that goes around the lens. I've never lost and never broken a cap and while caps are fairly inexpensive to replace, it's a pain in the butt if you lose one while you're out shooting and then have to figure out how to protect the lens on your way home.</p>

<p>Dark slides, same issue.</p>

<p>On some lenses I use one of those inexpensive lens cap keeper cords. One type has an elastic band that wraps snug around the lens barrel. Another type has a little locking tab that attaches to the camera's neck strap lug. On one camera I even made my own by gluing a short length of thick mono fishing line to front of the lens cap, using epoxy cement. I guess it depends on your style, but I never mind the dangling cap on a string. I just ignore it and keep taking pictures.</p>

<p>On my lenses that do not have a keeper, I usually put the cap either in my front shirt pocket, or my left pants pocket, or back in the camera's wrap-around case, where it stays till I go to put the camera away.</p>

Leave the caps at home and put hoods on all your lenses. Better yet, take one lens attached to one body and you can forget the rear cap too. How many lenses do you need for landscapes anyways?

<p>That's why photo jackets have so many pockets!</p>

<p>In the camera bag.</p>

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<p>How many lenses do you need for landscapes anyways?</p>

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<p>If I take out the Bronica system then six. But then of course I'm trying to get the best photographs I can rather than get photographs as easily as I can. Sometimes I have two systems with me taking the lenses to 9. And there's a cap on every one and no hoods. </p>

 

<p>In winter i tend to wear button up shirts when I'm shooting - that usually has a shirt pocket, I use that.<br>

Otherwise, I'll use my non-wallet back pocket. I put less things in that pocket so it seems to collect lint less for me.<br>

I had the elastic teather thing, it was a pain.</p>

<p>Right front pocket. I store it the same place every time I shoot. </p>

<p>Never mind, you do not want my suggestion!</p>

<p>Like Jeff, I use the Sima CapKeeper. I loop the elastic tether through the strap loop though. That way, even if the elastic gives out, it's still attached to the camera. I've been using these capkeepers since teh '70s when I had my old Minolta and never lost a cap.</p>

<p>In my left hip pocket. But, if I use my wife's camera, I need to put it in HER left hip pocket! That way she can find the cap when I hand the camera back to her! From experience, this method avoids unnessary searches and argument! Regards, Jeff</p>

<p>Left front pocket, with the back of the cap facing outwards (less lint that way). The main thing is to be consistent.</p>