Better lens cap for Nokton 35/1.4 ?

[Toni Nikkanen]

Hi, I have the Nokton MC 35/1.4 lens with the hood and while the lens itself is great and all that, I'm not satisfied with the supplied lens cap. It's a bit fiddlish to get securely on, but the most important problem is that when attached to a srew-in filter, it can get completely stuck and can't be removed except with extreme force or very skillful wiggling.

So I'm looking for experiences with other caps that have been found to work well both with lens hoods and screw-in filters.

For background, I use Nikon caps on all my Canon FD SLR lenses and my Mamiya 7 lenses. They are easy to use with a lens hood, easy to snap in, stay securely in place and when you try to remove them, that also happens easily. But seems Nikon doesn't make caps for such small filter thread sizes... but maybe someone else does?

 

[Toni Nikkanen]

To clarify more, I need a snap-on cap in which you can push those snappy things while a lens hood is on, without having to first remove the hood like Canon seems to want people to do 🙂

 

[ferider]

Not sure I understand. My CV 35/1.4 cap is exactly as what you describe you need. Can you show a picture ?

Roland.

 

[jonmanjiro]

I'm baffled too. I like the lens cap on the Nokton 35/1.4 so much, I purchased several spares and use them on my Zeiss Planar 50/2 and a few other lenses.

 

[Toni Nikkanen]

Ok I'll try to clarify a bit more. Maybe I just have a bad example of the cap.. in principle, the Voigtländer caps are exactly like the Nikon cap but with small annoying differences at least with my sample: when I push the cap in and hear a snap that doesn't necessarily mean the cap is really attached to the lens and will easily fall off. And when taking it off it sometimes comes off so easily I don't have enough time to take a good hold of it before it starts falling, so it goes rolling on the ground. Maybe the springs on mine have just somehow gone slack.


But the real problem is that I got an orange 43mm threaded filter. When I screw that on my lens and then try to attach the cap on the filter, it goes in just fine, but it's impossible to get if off without some kind of tool like a small knife - it gets stuck in real hard. I know i don't really need to protect my lens that much with a cap when I have a filter on, but it's a habit and a very useful one on beaches and at Niagara Falls 🙂