lens caps ?

Most of the used LF lenses listed on ebay don't seem to have lens caps.
Do most LF photographers not use them ? What to use instead?
I have an Angulon 90. If I get a plastic push on type should
I order it undersized and assume it'll stretch to fit ?

"James Dunn" wrote...
Most of the used LF lenses listed on ebay don't seem to have lens caps.
Do most LF photographers not use them ? What to use instead?
I have an Angulon 90. If I get a plastic push on type should
I order it undersized and assume it'll stretch to fit ?

I am in no way an experienced LF photographer or should be taken as
an example, but so far I have one lens living on my camera (it's
a Crown, so it's folded most of the time thus keeping the lens away
from harm), one that has some kind of plastic covers made from either
bottle caps or jar lids and one lens that lives in a Ziploc(tm) bag
unless is on the camera... I guess I never had time or desire to
change this situation, so I learned to live with it :-)

In article , James Dunn
wrote:

Most of the used LF lenses listed on ebay don't seem to have lens caps.
Do most LF photographers not use them ? What to use instead?

Use the Real Thing! Here's where to get them.
http://www.2filter.com/prices/products/schcaps.html

Say Thank You.

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"James Dunn" wrote...
Most of the used LF lenses listed on ebay don't seem to have lens caps.
Do most LF photographers not use them ? What to use instead?
I have an Angulon 90. If I get a plastic push on type should
I order it undersized and assume it'll stretch to fit ?

I am in no way an experienced LF photographer or should be taken as
an example, but so far I have one lens living on my camera (it's
a Crown, so it's folded most of the time thus keeping the lens away
from harm), one that has some kind of plastic covers made from either
bottle caps or jar lids and one lens that lives in a Ziploc(tm) bag
unless is on the camera... I guess I never had time or desire to
change this situation, so I learned to live with it :-)

That makes me curious. Who buys the lenses that eventually shows up on eBay
or in the used equipment counter? :- Seems to me they all came with caps at
one time, yes?

I always use lens caps, I don't know what others do. I have them made by
S.K.Grimes. The caps they make are a hard plastic-like material of some
sort, they fit nice and snugly so that they don't fall off but they also
don't stretch. They cost something like $30 so they aren't cheap but I think
they're worth it. Use of caps has several times saved the glass on a dropped
lens from being damaged.

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Most of the used LF lenses listed on ebay don't seem to have lens caps.
Do most LF photographers not use them ? What to use instead?
I have an Angulon 90. If I get a plastic push on type should
I order it undersized and assume it'll stretch to fit ?

In article , "MikeWhy"
wrote:

That makes me curious. Who buys the lenses that eventually shows up on eBay
or in the used equipment counter? :- Seems to me they all came with caps at
one time, yes?

Lens caps are never really lost. According the the _Law of Conservation of
Missing Things_, when you lose a lens cap someone elses lost sock show up
in its place. We just have to all get together and trade these things
back.

"jjs" wrote

Lens caps are never really lost. According the the _Law of Conservation of
Missing Things_, when you lose a lens cap someone elses lost sock show up
in its place.

I read a different sci-fi story:

Inanimate objects metamorphose with time -- paper clips grow up to become
coat hangers and explains is why the paper clip box is empty and the closet
is full of coat hangers. Likewise screwdrivers grow up to become rusty
bicycle frames.

I have a principle that if I can't find something it is because I don't need it.

I find it amazing how well this principle holds: If, after a reasonable search,
something can't be found then I proceed without it -- an lo and behold, I
accomplish the goal without ever needing the item.

There are corollaries:

o Everything needed is close at hand.

o There is no reason to buy something new, one already has what is needed.

--
Nick Lindan

Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:


I have a principle that if I can't find something it is because I don't need it.


Usually the rule is that you only find things you don't need. When you
need them they go into hiding.

Nick

James Dunn wrote:
Most of the used LF lenses listed on ebay don't seem to have lens
caps. Do most LF photographers not use them ?

I use lens caps on almost all my lenses. I bought all but one lens new,
and they all came with front lens caps, and one was missing a rear lens cap.

I have a very old Meyer Gorlitz Aristostigmat 120mm lens on a Compur
shutter where even the shutter has a serial number (not the same as the
lens serial number). There were no lens caps with that, but Stu Kay
found one for the front of that when I got it.

My Wisner Convertable Plasmat set has each cell in a velvet-lined
compartment of a beautiful wood and brass box. The two shortest cells do
not go in there but remain on the shutter. They have front lens caps.

What to use instead? I have an Angulon 90. If I get a plastic push on
type should I order it undersized and assume it'll stretch to fit ?

Depends on what kind of plastic you get. If you get it from Steve
Grimes' merry men, they make them from Delrin plastic that does not
stretch much at all. So unless it is a very well known common lens, they
will want you to send in the lens so they can match it.

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In article .net,
"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote:

"jjs" wrote
[...]

I read a different sci-fi story:

Inanimate objects metamorphose with time -- paper clips grow up to become
coat hangers and explains is why the paper clip box is empty and the closet
is full of coat hangers. [...]

Yep! I read it too, and it went more the way you describe it. Wish I knew
who wrote it.

I have a principle that if I can't find something it is because
I don't need it.

Not me. I truly miss my mind.,

--
jjs - "Why is it that after looking everywhere for hours, I always find
the missing thing in the very last place I look?"