Take control of your lens cap!

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2007/04/20 @ 7:00 am
Category Art & Design

Here’s a clever way to store your lens cap with a bit of velcro – Link.

BY Phillip Torrone

Editor at large - Make magazine. Creative director - Adafruit Industries, contributing editor - Popular Science. Previously: Founded - Hack-a-Day, how-to editor - Engadget, Director of product development - Fallon Worldwide, Technology Director - Braincraft.

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6 Responses to Take control of your lens cap!

ericskiff on April 20th, 2007 at 10:24 am said:

This is frakking brilliant. Definitely doing this with my canon asap – it drives me crazy swinging around like it does, but I know I’ll lose it if it’s not attached.

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mkeblx on April 20th, 2007 at 2:20 pm said:

It’s a: why didn’t I think of that? kind of thing. I’m doing this to my Canon S2IS ASAP, except with thin magnets.

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tiedyepie on April 20th, 2007 at 8:32 pm said:

I’d think I’d rather have hook & loop near my flash media than two magnets, but go with what works.

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volkemon on April 21st, 2007 at 9:41 am said:

My Kodak need this- great idea!!!

I like the magnet idea, but maybe a flat plate ( or the tripod stud area) on the camera. A magnet on the camera bottom would attract debris.

The media slot on my camera is on the right side, but the concern is a VERY valid point I might have overlooked. THANKS tiedyepie!

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milombogo@gmail.com on April 22nd, 2007 at 5:29 am said:

Take off your tin-foil hat, tiedyepie. Unless your “flash media” is actually a microdrive(and therefore not really flash media), having a magnet near it is going to have about the same effect as velcro. Flash media is not magnetically encoded like cassette tapes and floppy disks, it’s nonvolatile RAM.

In fact, with today’s storage rates and techniques, I’d be interested in hearing any first-hand accounts of even a microdrive being erased by a magnet…

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ianmsmith on September 17th, 2007 at 8:54 am said:

While flash media is immune to magnetic fields, I would be wary of putting any magnet near the camera body itself which has many high percision moving metal parts and magnetic coils for various motors and latches.

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