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My solution to preventing lens cap loss is simple:
When I buy a lens I remove the lens cap and stick it in a box in my closet ... and I mount a rigid metal or plastic hood to all my lenses to protect the front elements from damage.
The only lens I own that keeps a lens cap on is my Sigma 8mm fisheye ... because you cannot mount a hood to that lens.
As both a working photographer and as a parent I've missed too many great photo opportunities because I was taking off a stupid lens cap.
I stopped using lens caps a couple years ago after watching the movie "Pecker." I didn't particularly like that film, but there's a great scene where the young photographer in the movie gets a new camera and looks at the lens cap like, "What is this?" Then he immediately proceeds to throw away the lens cap.
I remember thinking, "Why didn't I think of that?" Lens caps just don't serve a purpose for me (with the exception of my fisheye lens) so I just store them in the closet and forget about them.
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