Originally posted by twilhelm Yes. Most rubber collapsible hoods will accept a regular lens cap. I believe my 49mm hood would take a 52mm cap and so forth. But, is a collapsible hood what you are looking for? Some petal hoods are large enough that the cap can fit inside the hood, but the only ones I have that do that are bayonet type.
Originally posted by Sandy Hancock Yeah I've tried two rubber ones, both are not what I am looking for. One rubber hood was firmish to begin with but then became soft and held no strength at all in retaining the shape when placing back in my pouch. The other whilst firmer would not accept any kinda lens cap or filter, you had to unscrew it for that. But both rubber ones were annoying when fetching and storing the lens inside a smallish pouch, the rubber would grip the sides of the pouch, and often lead to 'turning the lens' over to its side so that the rear element would have contact with the inside (which is not ideal), or were just a teeny bit annoying to get out due to gripping the sides etc.
Sandy, I have those optech caps, I even borrowed the wifes nail varnish to mark the grooved raised bits that indicate where the orange lens marker lines up with, to assist with doing the changes quickly. But that's not really what I'm on about here, I don't even bother with rear lens element protection of any kind when 'on the job', just only when in transportation and storing mode do I cap them.
I learned that for me the quickest lens change possible is to just take a lens off, put it away, take another one out and put it on. Imagine you're in the kitchen and you have your bench top in front of you. You have lenses with no rear caps on with lens hoods on and they are all sitting face down (so rear element to the ceiling) and you just swap and change. That's basically what I do in the field but this time my bench tops are lens pouches afixed to my waist belt;
You can just see my two front pouches in this pic here (and the main K-1 stowaway pouch that is nearest).
The introduction of a optech double lens cap I find slows that process down, I don't worry too much about the rear element as the flap falls fairly well over the pouch, and this is just for when I am 'working' or in a 'session'. Once that time is over, rear lens caps go back on, hoods off, front lens caps on etc.
But I want to see if I can streamline things, get lens hoods onto my Lensbaby 56 and FA 77 that pretty much live there indefinitely. If a lens cap could then go on the lens hood that means less messing with the lens hood, it can stay on for even more occasions.
I guess one thing I could do is build a 'hood' from step up rings. If I go down this route I am now curious if there is some important optical reason to have a ND filter or CPL filter close to the front element, or whether I can attach it to the end of the DIY step up ring hood...
Last edited by BruceBanner; 09-05-2018 at 02:26 AM.