Great thread. Lots of useful ideas here. Thanks. dk On 10/23/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While the same as your back to back caps, I have a different intent > in mind. I won't store lenses back to back on a siamesed cap ... that > makes the total package too long for my bag/slot design and means > hunting for the right lens as part of a lens pair, can mean even more > bits to juggle. I tried it with my Leica gear some years ago but > didn't like it very much. > > The purpose for the back to back rear caps is to enable changing the > lens more quickly and reducing the amount of bits juggling you have > to do in the operation of "pull out a lens - pull the rear cap - put > a cap on the lens you just took off the camera". With back to back > rear caps, you twist a lens onto the one you just pulled from the > bag, then hold the cap and twist the other right off, barely moving > your hands. The lens that goes in the bag has a cap on the rear in > the end, with a siamesed rear cap opening unused. > > Because I will not depend on the caps to stick together with the > weight of two lenses bearing on the cement joint, almost any cement > will do (epoxy, rubber cement, cyanoacrilate ...). Their join could > always be reinforced with a glued in reinforcing ring too. > > Godfrey > > On Oct 23, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > I've done that for years, and it works great. I can carry two > > lenses in > > the space for one. Some different techniques and epoxies have been > > tried, > > and although none of the caps have separated, the later attempts > > both look > > nicer and might even be a little stronger. If you'd like some tips or > > ideas, just let me know. My first attempt was sent to Bob Walkden > > several > > years ago, and AFAIK, he's still using the back-to-back caps I made > > for his > > Leica glass. > > > >> Another thing I'm going to do is buy six rear caps and glue them > >> together into pair. That will make it easier when doing a quick > >> change to transfer the cap from one lens to the next ... just connect > >> the lens you just took off to the one you just pulled out, then twist > >> the one going to the camera off and drop the other back into the bag. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >
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