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Vintage_Photographer
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 Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:28 am Post subject: Clear lens caps |
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Vintage_Photographer wrote:
Having read up about the benefits of exposing lenses to light to prevent fungus it occured to me that translucent lens caps might be useful?
Any thoughts?
I have 3D printer so might have a go at knocking sone up.
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kansalliskala
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| Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:06 am Post subject: |
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kansalliskala wrote:
I think lens caps used to be black to prevent film exposure when shutters were this and that. Digital times I can not see a reason why not transparent?
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Vintage_Photographer
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| Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Vintage_Photographer wrote:
I can see a reason for lens caps on lenses attached to cameras to be black - sunlight through the lens focused on a shutter or sensor could damage them through heat but lenses stored off camera... I can imagine transparent lens caps would help keep fungus at bay.
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stevemark
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Location: Switzerland
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| Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: Clear lens caps |
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stevemark wrote:
| Vintage_Photographer wrote: |
| Having read up about the benefits of exposing lenses to light to prevent fungus it occured to me that translucent lens caps might be useful? |
I have no idea where that comes from. Anyone leaving a source of food in the open (i. e. in plain light) can see that fungus will start to grow, in spite of the light. And yes, I do have lenses which A) were stored without lens cap and B) *did* get fungus.
Maybe someone confused the "healling" effect of UV light on radioactive lenses with the fungus problems?!?
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BrianSVP
Joined: 09 Jun 2023
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 2:28 am Post subject: Re: Clear lens caps |
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BrianSVP wrote:
There are a lot of misconceptions about lens fungus out there . The most pervasive is that fungus "jumps" from lens to lens . If you expose a lens to conditions in which fungus will grow, fungus will grow. The spores are everywhere.
That said, fungus does indeed grow better in dark settings, but it -can- grow in the presence of light if other conditions are ideal, i.e., ones that are warm and damp.
So clear caps might help a little? But probably not nearly as much as a humidifier/air conditioning where they are stored will.
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| Vintage_Photographer wrote: |
| Having read up about the benefits of exposing lenses to light to prevent fungus it occured to me that translucent lens caps might be useful? |
I have no idea where that comes from. Anyone leaving a source of food in the open (i. e. in plain light) can see that fungus will start to grow, in spite of the light. And yes, I do have lenses which A) were stored without lens cap and B) *did* get fungus.
Maybe someone confused the "healling" effect of UV light on radioactive lenses with the fungus problems?!?
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