Well, I'm aware of THREE styles of lens caps. The first were very thing and
had a cool serrated edge. I've only seen a couple and only have one -- in a
place of honor on the 90/2.
The second was what you probably refer to as the first. Thin with a little
bit of a raised lip on the edge.
The last are thicker, without the raised edge.
Honestly, though, I can't see any difference in their holding power....
Tom
who realizes how sad it is he can have an entire conversation about lens
caps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "RickM" <zuiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: [OM] Lens Caps Trivia
> Inspired by Tom's photo of his gear, i picked up a set of shelves
yesterday
> and am in the process of trying to organise my stuff... The bad news is
> that i need to go back and buy a second set of shelves... also realised
that
> i have a lot more oly stuff than i thought i had, including duplicate
lenses
> that i didn't know i had...
>
> Doing this, one thing i noticed and that's been bugging me for a while
> anyway, are the two different styles of lens caps. The earlier ones are
> thinner, the "olympus" lettering is smaller, and they don't decide to pop
> off the lens by themselves. With the earlier ones i never worried about a
> lens cap coming off by itself even if the lens was bouncing around in a
bag
> so never bothered with filters, but with the newer ones, they even come
off
> while attached to a camera in a case.
>
> Anyone have any idea why they replaced a good product with an inferior
one,
> and when?
>
> RickM
>
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