p.1 #10 · Lens Cap Replacement Zeiss Makro Planar 2.0
The best replacements for the feeble Zeiss caps are screw-in metal lens caps. They don't break and cannot accidentally come undone. Even the best clip-on caps can easily be knocked off with a light glancing blow and are marginal at best. The screw-ins vary in quality; the ones B&H carries new are fine; sometimes you can find used ones a swell.
p.1 #11 · Lens Cap Replacement Zeiss Makro Planar 2.0
Gary Clennan wrote:
There is one but it is not "official" Nikon product......
I have that one. Within a week the Nikon letters had peeled from the front, but worse, the springs are much weaker than in real Nikon caps, so it doesn't feel safe. I haven't had it drop off yet, but if I saw a better one, this one would be gone instantly.
p.1 #14 · Lens Cap Replacement Zeiss Makro Planar 2.0
I agree with you about the poorly designed Zeiss len caps - after the first one came apart, I called Zeiss and they quickly sent me a replacement for free - but alas another one did the same thing - guess I will use the Nikon and forget it - I just hate to use a cap from a $200 Nikon lens on a $2000 Zeiss lens - just the principle!!!
p.1 #15 · Lens Cap Replacement Zeiss Makro Planar 2.0
ytwong wrote:
I don't get the hate for Zeiss lens caps.. (I have no complains about the lens cap for MP 100, yet)
They are just really difficult to get on and off, and easily slip out of the hand. Getting them on is hard due to their sharp edges which catch on the filter threads, and getting them off and dropping them because the pinch area is the inverse shape from ideal, and has the ribbing running in exactly the wrong direction. I cannot for the life of me fathom how a company which generally produces such excellent things could have approved such a design.
p.1 #18 · Lens Cap Replacement Zeiss Makro Planar 2.0
Keith B. wrote:
The best replacements for the feeble Zeiss caps are screw-in metal lens caps. They don't break and cannot accidentally come undone. Even the best clip-on caps can easily be knocked off with a light glancing blow and are marginal at best. The screw-ins vary in quality; the ones B&H carries new are fine; sometimes you can find used ones a swell.
+1000
all the lenses i care about have generic metal screw caps. i do wish they made them like they used to though – i've gotten a couple of old tiffin ones with old lenses and they are made of nicer metal with better machining and beveled edges.
p.1 #19 · Lens Cap Replacement Zeiss Makro Planar 2.0
sebboh wrote:
+1000
all the lenses i care about have generic metal screw caps. i do wish they made them like they used to though � i've gotten a couple of old tiffin ones with old lenses and they are made of nicer metal with better machining and beveled edges.
I have never heard of metal screw-in lens cap. Don't you think the lens thread will worn out after years of screw in and out?
p.1 #20 · Lens Cap Replacement Zeiss Makro Planar 2.0
phuang3 wrote:
I have never heard of metal screw-in lens cap. Don't you think the lens thread will worn out after years of screw in and out?
only if it's a really crappily made lens, really gritty threading on the cap, or the lens has plastic filter threads. i have lenses that i know have had the same metal lens cap used on them for over 40 years and the thread is still great.
I think you were speed-reading...