This kind of thing will totally be 3d printable. Have you checked thingiverse or similar?
This kind of thing will totally be 3d printable. Have you checked thingiverse or similar?
I buy caps off eBay, advertised here in the Uk as "Lens Cap End Cover Binocular Monocular Camera Spotting Scope Microscope Eyepiece". A mouthfull but they do the job and come in loads of sizes. Especially useful for protecting my brass lenses.
regards, Tony
For some of my LF lenses I've found that PVC pipe caps with a little felt glued inside make good caps.
Ebay is fine for getting used push-on caps of various sizes - I just bought two for a Rodenstock lens I'd bought without caps.
3D-printed materials are too rigid and not very good for the job.
For my brass lenses which came without caps I made a new ones using a hardpaper and ink. I think it is a suitable fit for such lenses. For a modern lens I would try something else, just like ajmiller suggested above.
As a back lens cover for my Mamiya TLR lenses I found that bottle caps from 5l deionized water bottle(here in Czech Rep.) are perfect match. Nothing fancy, but it works just fine.
EBay came through ,waiting for. Them to arrive
Linhof Studio UK sell original Rodenstock and Schneider-Kreuznach lens caps.
http://lungov.com/wagner/DIYLensCap.html
Just one of a number of online references to make lens caps.
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