Five Photos!!!! Gone!

[Pirate]

Never again, never again, never again!

I will not put another lens cap on my Rangefinder!!!

It took 5 shots before I noticed the cap was on! When I went back to retrace my shots, I even missed one that I had wanted.

I hate that!

 

[Arjay]

Don't worry - this has happened and probably will happen to anybody who uses an RF camera. Unfortunately, lens caps are necessare and useful accessories that protect our valuable glass and its optical performance.

There is no other protection against this d'oh moment than sheer discipline when attaching and removon lens caps.

 

[oftheherd]

Well, I guess you know this has to be verified at least twice more before you are eligible to learn the secret handshake. But anyway, welcome to the club. 😀 😀

I don't think I have done this with my Kiev, but I have left the lens cap on my Mamiya, and left the dark slide in the film back. I did that again just the other day with a 9x12 roll film back. Fortunately I caught it at the time and was able to save the film and the shots were only tests, so easy to duplicate.

EDIT: BTW, that is a problem. If you lose more than three frames, and can't duplicate all of them, you dues are temporaritly increased and penance is required.

 

[David R Munson]

Another reason to use a proper lens hood and leave it on all the time!

 

[Arjay]

Another reason to use a proper lens hood and leave it on all the time!

Ah but then you need to carry a larger camera bag, and regularly have to clean lenses and bag, or you'll have unpleasant surprises when shootiing contre-jour images.

There's nothing that beats a good old stubbornly maintained routine!

 

[MickH]

I'm recently back from Spain and 36 shots I took at a Fiesta were all multiple exposures on Frame 1... jammed film & torn sprocket holes. Gah!

 

[januaryman]

A UV filter might work, but it introduces a problem or two of its own, including internal reflection/flare when shooting at night. I use a lens cap, but it stays on only when the camera lies idle at home. As soon as I drape the strap over my head the lens cap comes off and stays off until I return home or run out of film or battery power.

 

[fixbones]

I never use lens caps.
Only lens hood and UV filter.

If i have to 'cap' it, i use OpTech's neoprene lens cover - too bulky to miss 🙂

 

[will-i_am]

Hate when this happens, i also hate when i forget to focus whilst using a scale focus camera like my rollei 35se

 

[David R Munson]

Ah but then you need to carry a larger camera bag, and regularly have to clean lenses and bag, or you'll have unpleasant surprises when shootiing contre-jour images.

There's nothing that beats a good old stubbornly maintained routine!

I've never had this problem. The added size of a lens hood has never bothered me, and I find that dust can easily be addressed should it accumulate to any objectionable level.

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

:0

 

[amateriat]

Another reason to use a proper lens hood and leave it on all the time!

Or/and a built-in, TTL meter. Usually a dead giveaway.


- Barrett

 

[greyelm]

So... I remove the lens cap, I shoot half a dozen pictures, then I realise my Summitar is still collapsed in my Leica IIIf. Doh....

 

[Roger Hicks]

Hood hats: http://www.rogerandfrances.com/subscription/review optech shower cap.html. Better protection than hard caps AND you can see them in the viewfinder.

Cheers,

R.

 

[ferider]

There's nothing that beats a good old stubbornly maintained routine!

What he said 🙂

 

[Arjay]

Very true! A lot of trivial things can go wrong and prevent us from getting that elusive and unique one-time and never to be repeated shot.

There are two really annoying things that have stopped me in the past:

1. Lens caps, and
2. camera straps.

It's time to find creative solutions to these problems.

 

[pschauss]

Even worse is when the film fails to catch on the take up spool and you shoot 36 exposures on the leader.

 

[shadowfox]

For the length of time that rangefinder cameras have been around, why someone hasn't invented an attachment to the lens cap that covers the viewfinder?

Or a lens cap system that triggers a flag in the viewfinder (even the humble Olympus 35 Trip raised a red flag when it thinks that the light is too low).

More unbelievable is the absence of an icon in the viewfinder for metered (read:modern *and* expensive) RF cameras that indicates the meter is reading total blackness.

Sometimes I just wonder...

 

[Brian Legge]

May as well get use to using a lens cap in case you use a cloth shutter camera some time. I wouldn't want to carry one of them around too long without a lens cap on personally.

 

[Renzsu]

Benefit of having a camera with a meter, it'll go nuts if you leave the cap off..