SON OF A B%#&H! so careless...

I was in such a hurry to play with my camera for the first time in a month, I took the cap off and started shooting... Little did i know the lens cap just vanished! I never left the house and turned the whole place upside down 5 times! its just gone! Damn! I need to put it in my bag to get ready for my shoot at the snowmobile races, but cannot find the damn cap! Man, i'm frustrated!

Total search hours = 3! :o

How many others have had the vanishing cap trick happen?

marcus769 wrote in post #4682008
I was in such a hurry to play with my camera for the first time in a month, I took the cap off and started shooting... Little did i know the lens cap just vanished! I never left the house and turned the whole place upside down 5 times! its just gone! Damn! I need to put it in my bag to get ready for my shoot at the snowmobile races, but cannot find the damn cap! Man, i'm frustrated!

Total search hours = 3! :o

How many others have had the vanishing cap trick happen?

I was at work and went to take a pen out of my blazer and FIND a lenscap. So I thought sh**, my lens go not cap so I get home, bypass family and rush up to my camera case to find ALL of my lenses have their respective caps on and I am 100% certain that I do not have any additional lenses. I have also not borrowed or lent any lenses out yet.

Go figure

Dude! It is just a lens cap. Step back, breathe, and don't sweat the small stuff. It'll turn up, in the last place you look for it.

And to think, I thought you dropped a lens or something. In those 3 hours I could have driven to at least a dozen stores and bought another one for a few bucks.

Yeah, I've managed to misplace one once or twice. Heck, I've even found the cable remote in the freezer(went for ice cream during an advertisement).

Check your left front and rear pants pocket, then left coat / sweatshirt pocket. failing that, check the freezer. thats where mine always are.

I've been missing the lens cap for my nifty for about a week now. I have absolutely no clue where it would be...so yeah, I feel your pain

KirkHMB wrote in post #4682104
Check your left front and rear pants pocket, then left coat / sweatshirt pocket. failing that, check the freezer. thats where mine always are.

hahaha! I'm so tempted to dig through the garbage! I'm freaking out because I am going to take it for a shoot and def cannot risk it scratching my filter/glass because of a stupid lost lens cap! Time is running out! Going to start pulling up the carpet soon! haha

marcus769 wrote in post #4682310
hahaha! I'm so tempted to dig through the garbage! I'm freaking out because I am going to take it for a shoot and def cannot risk it scratching my filter/glass because of a stupid lost lens cap! Time is running out! Going to start pulling up the carpet soon! haha

Can't you just run to the near shop and pick up a new cap??

I am always more suprised to find my lenses with the cap on! I have an ability to lose mine all of the time!

SO WHAT!!

Wait until you DROP a camera, then come whining back to us for some love...

Les

Haha, this has happened to me so many times that I still do it! It's the excitement of taking pics and ideas flowing through the mind that just pushes out the short term memory of where you "threw" the cap that does it, I reckon

I managed to chop my nail off with a new knife a month ago and just thought, ahh, macro shot of the blood and gore! So I grabbed the camera (after arresting the blood), slapped on the macro lens and shot away. I couldn't find the lens cap and so I used the one on my 18-55 I found it three days later in a drawer in the kitchen!

Lens caps are the bain of my existence. I don't want to buy one of those attachments that let em just hang from the lens, but I lose them on a regular basis. They're ridiculous expensive to replace too ($6-8ish) for just a piece of plastic!

rs2sensen wrote in post #4682496
Lens caps are the bain of my existence. I don't want to buy one of those attachments that let em just hang from the lens, but I lose them on a regular basis. They're ridiculous expensive to replace too ($6-8ish) for just a piece of plastic!

A couple of people I know use those so they don't lose their lens cap. One of them has it on their only "L" lens. I laughed my head off when I saw it, what disrespect on an "L"! They don't need jewellery!

I buy extras,. lots of extras!

I just bought TEN extra rear caps... (cheap no name ones) so I would never be without .

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #4682553
I buy extras,. lots of extras!

I just bought TEN extra rear caps... (cheap no name ones) so I would never be without .

You're just buying something photographic for the sake of it. Getting your fix anyway you can! Buy a new lens and be done with it for the next few months

I'm seriously considering the 85L, even though I don't need it, I need a "red line fix"! I can't sleep at night!