Canon Announces New Lens Caps!

[Bosman]

This has been an interesting (and humorous at times) thread!

I'm going to weigh in... I do *not* like the pinch-type caps, I have some experience with the Tamron caps, and they were finicky, and I hit inside the filter threads all the time.  I find the Canon caps more intuitive, because you're pretty much "fingering" the filter thread area when you put the Canon type cap on, whereas you're blindly aiming the Tamron pinch-type cap.

Also, I wanted to ask... why are folks putting caps on their lenses, with the hoods not reversed?  What's the point?  I can certainly see the desire to either a) leave the hood on, skip the cap or b) reverse hood, put cap on, but why have the hood + cap installed?  Are you worried about dust with the hood on?  If so, then why aren't you worried about covering the felt inner surface of the hood with dust while it's not reversed?

Discuss!

While I thought your point about guiding the cap on by feeling for the threads of the lens was quite valid, When I think about when i fiddle with lens caps its primarily to take them off. When I put them on i usually am reversing the hood to put in my case then attaching the cap. I imagine i may still put a couple fingers out to guide it or at least guide it based on fingers on the outside edge of the lens touching the rim of the lens. I do think having the pinch not come to close to the center would help for using it. If you are pinching too close to the center of the cap I can see my hands loosing a good feel for it. I'll probably buy 1 77mm cap to test it on my 24LII and 70-200LII before I buy into the whole thing.

[AvTvM]

dont worry ... if you want, the center pinch caps can ALSO be used exactly like the old caps .. squeezing the 2 moving "holding things" from the outside edge of the cap. They protrude a little ... very easy to feel.
It really is best of both worlds. Center pinch and edge pinch are possible.
Absolutely ridiculous Canon did not make this switch about 10 years ago already.

* and now I also want to get lens hoods included with any and all new lenses in the future!
* And lens collars included with all lenses that can take one.
* And make the foot of those lens cooalrs Atca-swiss dovetailed by default.

It really would be very easy to improve functionality of many Canon items by 100% at very little extra cost.

[eosbit]

Who actually uses lens caps anyway?  I don't have time for lens caps tbh. 

[pwp]

!!! I've just circled back to this thread....
Eleven pages on the new lens caps?
Must be a slow news week.

-PW

[PeterJ]

Who actually uses lens caps anyway?  I don't have time for lens caps tbh.

I use them often as a beer coaster, the only thing worse than having a bride angry because you turned up drunk is having them accuse you of leaving 'beer can rings' all over the place.

[rpt]

!!! I've just circled back to this thread....
Eleven pages on the new lens caps?
Must be a slow news week.

-PW

Week and month... I guess there can't be any DR battles here so that probably another reason. And with the quips it is entertaining.
 

[EOBeav]

I wasn't going to bite, but apparently I lost my 77mm cap in an unnamed creek in the Columbia River Gorge over the weekend. Dang.

[Bosman]

Who actually uses lens caps anyway?  I don't have time for lens caps tbh.

I use them often as a beer coaster, the only thing worse than having a bride angry because you turned up drunk is having them accuse you of leaving 'beer can rings' all over the place.

lol!

[Tristan944]

Are they going to have "Ultrasonic" printed on the lens caps that go to these lenses?

[Kumakun]

If anyone is still interested, these things are now available here in Japan.  I picked up a couple at Yodobashi Camera in Osaka this week.  No, they don't have ultrasonic printed on them.  They are thicker than the old side pinch type, but not enough to make a difference (i.e. they still fit in my bags). 

I do use lens caps at times (when moving by train to different location, in museums that don't allow photography, etc.).  Guess I'll see if the center-pinch types were worth the 850 yen price in the next few months.

[candyman]

Ordered mine (5) two weeks ago. Still no sign, waiting patiently