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Rear caps for lenses
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:08 amby DaveB
Just received my Nikon 50mm/1.8 AF D lens today, and while it comes with a nice front cap, the only cap on the back is a push-on transparent plastic cover.
Doesn't Nikon ship proper rear caps as standard with their lenses?
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:24 amby losfp
My 50/1.8 also came with that plastic push-on cap. The only other lenses I have are the 18-70 (traditional black screw on cap) and the 70-300G (screw on cap, but I bought it second hand, so may not have come with it).
Doesn't REALLY bother me though, as I just about always have a lens on my camera, so I have enough screw ons to fit the other lenses.
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:34 amby Andyt
DaveB,
I had the same complaint / post when I received my 50 F1.8, thats the way it comes.
Not a good example of Nikon quality?...
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:57 amby Zeeke
Even my 50mm 1.4 came with the milky clear white push on cap.. just budget packaging i think, i just swap it with my kit lens rear cap when im not using it
Tim
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:00 amby ozczecho
Atleast the front lens cap is still good quality...
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Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:48 amby birddog114
Zeeke wrote:Even my 50mm 1.4 came with the milky clear white push on cap.. just budget packaging i think, i just swap it with my kit lens rear cap when im not using it
Tim
Tim,
Not with all the 50/1.4 I have seen, it comes with proper black plactic rear lens cap.
Re: Rear caps for lenses
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Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:51 amby birddog114
DaveB wrote:Just received my Nikon 50mm/1.8 AF D lens today, and while it comes with a nice front cap, the only cap on the back is a push-on transparent plastic cover.
Doesn't Nikon ship proper rear caps as standard with their lenses?
Dave,
Nikon provides you a milky lens caps on those cheap (consumer) lens for keeping all the small screws + nuts + bolts, once you need to disassemble it.
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:13 amby huynhie
I dont see anything wrong with the white push on caps.
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:18 amby birddog114
huynhie wrote:I dont see anything wrong with the white push on caps.
Yeah! me too! coz we can utilize it for many purposes
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:19 amby Glen
All mine came with black screw ons, but a member here lpv6ready sells the proper ones
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Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:21 amby birddog114
Glen wrote:All mine came with black screw ons, but a member here lpv6ready sells the proper ones
Perhaps Nikon wants to "double sale" figure on the rear lens cap
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:12 amby Greg B
Dave, what are you doing buying Nikon lenses? Aren't you
a Canon man?
Re: Rear caps for lenses
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:55 amby gstark
Birddog114 wrote:DaveB wrote:Just received my Nikon 50mm/1.8 AF D lens today, and while it comes with a nice front cap, the only cap on the back is a push-on transparent plastic cover.
Doesn't Nikon ship proper rear caps as standard with their lenses?
Dave,
Nikon provides you a milky lens caps on those cheap (consumer) lens for keeping all the small screws + nuts + bolts, once you need to disassemble it.
But you can use these for a white balance setting check.
Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:01 amby DaveB
Greg B wrote:Dave, what are you doing buying Nikon lenses? Aren't you
a Canon man?
This is a test lens so I can check the focus (manual and AF) on Nikon bodies that I convert to dedicated infrared cameras.
So the push-on cap doesn't really worry me as I'm not about to use it in the field. Otherwise I'd be concerned about the cap popping off in a vest pocket, etc.