Originally posted by designinme_1976 Just curious if anyone knows of a good place to purchase replacements rear caps. I lose these things like crazy, I need both K-mount rear cap and Screw mount as well and my local shop doesn't carry them.
Thanks for any advice!
When I need them I buy them on eBay when I see them for less than $6 BiN. I just bought 2 K caps and a KA cap (with the lip).
I find that most used lenses I buy have inferior caps (I think there must be a black market buyer for Pentax caps that everyone except me sells to) so I replace the junk with genuine whenever I get a lens.
I lost caps all the time until I labeled outside the rear caps and inside of the front caps for each lens so I could identify the lenses in my camera bag. Here's what I do now:
- Whether you label the lens caps is up to you.
- I store my camera bodies without a lens and with a body cap attached
- When I attach a lens to my camera, I attach the rear lens cap to the body cap (from the camera body) and slide the combination, along with the front cap, into the empty lens space in my carry bag.
- When I change lenses I replace the caps on the removed lens, connect all the caps from the new lens and drop them in the vacant slot in the bag.
- If you choose not to label your lens caps, just transfer the rear cap from the new lens to the old lens.
- This method works for M42 and K-mount, since a body cap is basically an imprint of the bayonet or M42 lens mount and the rear lens cap fits the bayonet or threads.
Yes, it is totally anal-retentive; yes, I had to form new habits; but I don't lose caps any more.
I started something similar with filters (separate small wallet for each filter diameter, no filters on lenses unless needed for effect) and that works, too.
I ahven't lost a front or rear cap since I started doing this.
Here's a question. Should there be a hyphen between anal and retentive?