Gibbo Posted July 4, 2014 Share #1 Posted July 4, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) When your camera is not in use, do you leave a lens on it or a body cap? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Hi Gibbo, Take a look here Lens or body cap?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Peter H Posted July 4, 2014 Share #2 Posted July 4, 2014 I leave a lens on it. Always ready for action. Unlike me. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted July 4, 2014 Share #3 Posted July 4, 2014 Yes, I use a spare lens to block off that hole in the front. Steve 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted July 4, 2014 Author Share #4 Posted July 4, 2014 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted July 5, 2014 Share #5 Posted July 5, 2014 So that is what that flat cap is for!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rramesh Posted July 5, 2014 Share #6 Posted July 5, 2014 Always a lens. That way when you need to bring it in a jiffy, it is ready to take pictures. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted July 5, 2014 Share #7 Posted July 5, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Always a lens. That way when you need to bring it in a jiffy, it is ready to take pictures. No, be real, you need to take it out of it's Ona camera bag first (taking a moment to admire the leather), then make sure there is still enough charge in the battery since last years holiday, then find the SD card (probably in a Sony RX100 or similar), and then put it all away again because the sun went in. Steve 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted July 8, 2014 Share #8 Posted July 8, 2014 I leave a lens on it to prevent the tiny pixels from gradually evaporating through the thin plastic of the body cap. Also the lens tends to retain the available darkness in the camera body better. I've checked with a torch to make sure and there's clearly more darkness left inside when a lens has been on the camera. Pete. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spydrxx Posted July 8, 2014 Share #9 Posted July 8, 2014 Lens, unless I want to pack it flat, then a body cap. Seems like a strange question. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted July 9, 2014 Share #10 Posted July 9, 2014 I leave a lens on it to prevent the tiny pixels from gradually evaporating through the thin plastic of the body cap. That would be the Blackadder solution - I believe he had a song about them. Do photographers working with 'available darkness' scuttle from shadow to shadow so as not to take photos in bright light I wonder? And was your torch a 'blacklight' (UV) model - important;). Seriously, putting something on the camera body is obviously useful to stop dust and I do vaguely remember that body caps were sold with a mildly adhesive pad on their inside to try to ensure that any loose dust could be prevented from getting onto the sensor. Haven't seen these for years. That said my, camera sits ready (lens on, charged battery and SD card in) just in case I pop out. Its within reach now. But my back-up is stored with just a body cap on. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M9reno Posted July 10, 2014 Share #11 Posted July 10, 2014 A respected technician told me recently that storing a digital camera on its back with lens attached makes it possible for some lens lubricants to drop down towards the shutter/sensor, eventually requiring a wet clean of the latter. From personal experience I don't know if that's the case, as I store mine upright (with lens attached). Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted July 10, 2014 Share #12 Posted July 10, 2014 I aspire to own the Millionaires' Body Cap, otherwise known as the Noctilux 0.95 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted July 11, 2014 Share #13 Posted July 11, 2014 I can think of a few (non leica) lenses which were little use except as body cap substitutes. Gerry Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardgb Posted July 20, 2014 Share #14 Posted July 20, 2014 Lens, usually 28mm. The body cap is, though, and essential piece of kit for when you have to send the (digital M) camera to Wetzlar for repair . Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcraf Posted July 21, 2014 Share #15 Posted July 21, 2014 I leave a lens on it to prevent the tiny pixels from gradually evaporating through the thin plastic of the body cap. Also the lens tends to retain the available darkness in the camera body better. I've checked with a torch to make sure and there's clearly more darkness left inside when a lens has been on the camera. Pete. Pete, you might find the older Leitz body caps better - those with the metal piece on the inside which engages with the lens mount. The metal is impervious to escaping pixels, which give up attempts at freedom and go back to the sensor. If you put your ear to the body cap, you can hear them bouncing off. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share #16 Posted July 23, 2014 I just tried it and you're right. I could hear the sea too. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 30, 2014 Share #17 Posted July 30, 2014 A respected technician told me recently that storing a digital camera on its back with lens attached makes it possible for some lens lubricants to drop down towards the shutter/sensor, eventually requiring a wet clean of the latter. From personal experience I don't know if that's the case, as I store mine upright (with lens attached). Am I right in assuming he worked mainly on HGV,s or similar. :roll eyes: BrianP Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M9reno Posted August 1, 2014 Share #18 Posted August 1, 2014 Nope - a Leica technician... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted August 1, 2014 Share #19 Posted August 1, 2014 So the same thing would happen with film Leica's then, oil all over the shutter curtain? They have been around for much longer than the digital kind, and dripping oil is well known for not happening, but if it did happen once it would be hard to extrapolate that into a general warning. Steve Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M9reno Posted August 2, 2014 Share #20 Posted August 2, 2014 I am just repeating what this technician said. Yes, film cameras, too, would be affected, since it is stuff dripping down from the lens. He is not unreasonable, or a hysteric, so I assume he has personally seen the results of this phenomenon more than once. I have never stored cameras vertically anyway (not the configuration of my equipment drawer), so I have no direct stake in this - just passing on what I heard, in case others are interested. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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