Longwatcher
7th of June 2005 (Tue), 12:46
So okay I have been mysteriously losing lens caps lately. One a couple of months ago which maybe fell out of backpack, but the other just walked off as far as I can tell. I know it must still be in my house and I usually either put them in my pocket or in the camera bag. I took it off to take a picture, which I did, then the phone rang, I picked up the camera again took some more and then I couldn't find the lens cap. Short of it walking off by itself there is a total of 3 possible places I could have set it and it wasn't at any of them (I even looked in the refigerator). Under the conditions I grabbed the camera, I would have put the lens cap in my pocket or in the backpack. Since I did not move backpack or remove anything from pocket I can only conclude it walked off on its own.
But now I am down two lens caps and so I was looking up replacement cost. $11 US for a small piece of plastic, which I know costs less then $1 to manufacture package and maybe another $1.5 to ship indivdually. I am half way to a new CF card if I buy the three I had intended on buying, figuring they would be $4-5 range at most.
Must be the Canon logo.
Also because I keep losing them from the 77mm lenses for some reason these cost more then a 58 or 72mm lens cap by $3. I know there is not $3 worth of extra plastic between a 72mm lens cap and a 77mm lens cap. Also given the common size for the 77mm lens cap it should be cheaper because of production runs, not more expensive.
I am 90% sure that once I spend the money and the new caps are in transit, at least one if not both missing lens caps will show up. It's the law (Murphy's to be precise). But only if I order at least the two replacement caps and almost a certainty if I order 3 replacements (so I have a spare, which I won't be able to find later, no matter how carefully I put it somewhere).
But the cost....., for a little piece of plastic....., Oh the humanity of it all.....
On the other hand I keep thinking that if I wait until the lens breaks and I send it in for repair Canon will put on a lens cap and although they will charge me for it I will think it is free with the repair thus hiding the cost of that little piece of plastic from my brain which doesn't want to pay that much. Unfortunately my lenses have (so far) performed very well and I am not anticipating subjecting any of them to harse conditions for at least another 3 months (despite my best efforts to set up outdoor shoots lately). One of my lenses even had a perfectly good excuse to malfunction recently and didn't, so it is not likely to go anytime soon.
In the meantime, I am down two lens caps, with no clue where they went.
Just a bit of ranting,
But now I am down two lens caps and so I was looking up replacement cost. $11 US for a small piece of plastic, which I know costs less then $1 to manufacture package and maybe another $1.5 to ship indivdually. I am half way to a new CF card if I buy the three I had intended on buying, figuring they would be $4-5 range at most.
Must be the Canon logo.
Also because I keep losing them from the 77mm lenses for some reason these cost more then a 58 or 72mm lens cap by $3. I know there is not $3 worth of extra plastic between a 72mm lens cap and a 77mm lens cap. Also given the common size for the 77mm lens cap it should be cheaper because of production runs, not more expensive.
I am 90% sure that once I spend the money and the new caps are in transit, at least one if not both missing lens caps will show up. It's the law (Murphy's to be precise). But only if I order at least the two replacement caps and almost a certainty if I order 3 replacements (so I have a spare, which I won't be able to find later, no matter how carefully I put it somewhere).
But the cost....., for a little piece of plastic....., Oh the humanity of it all.....
On the other hand I keep thinking that if I wait until the lens breaks and I send it in for repair Canon will put on a lens cap and although they will charge me for it I will think it is free with the repair thus hiding the cost of that little piece of plastic from my brain which doesn't want to pay that much. Unfortunately my lenses have (so far) performed very well and I am not anticipating subjecting any of them to harse conditions for at least another 3 months (despite my best efforts to set up outdoor shoots lately). One of my lenses even had a perfectly good excuse to malfunction recently and didn't, so it is not likely to go anytime soon.
In the meantime, I am down two lens caps, with no clue where they went.
Just a bit of ranting,