Threaded lens caps

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Why do people worry about losing their lens caps when they are taking photos? Pocket technology has been around a long time. Rather, it's when the camera is in the bag you should be concerned about misplacing the lenscap. Squeeze style lens caps clip easily clip onto a lens when not in use, but on the other hand squeeze caps easily clip off when the lens is at your side or in a bag. Surely in this modern age we can do better? Hence the screw-on lens cap. They stay securely on when they should and can double as lens caps for two different sizes, which is great when out collecting photons with a main lens and an auxiliary. I even am confident enough to carry the camera in a rucksack. I've printed these using Shapeways plastic sintering processes (Strong & Flexible Plastic) which does a good job of printing functional screw threads. Now I'm putting all my basic thread lens caps sizes here under a creative commons non-commercial attribution license (CC NC BY, with the aim of getting more of these active in the wild for field testing, and to test compatability with other printers, materials, and sizes I haven't tested. If you make and use one, please share your notes! Read my notes on this and other projects (including some macro/micro-photography) at www.thebilder.wordpress.com or www.thescinder.com Follow on Twitter @BilderStudios Finally, if you don't have a printer at home, or just prefer an SLS version, check out my shapeways shoppe www.shapeways.com/shops/thebilder Dan Kirshner's Screw Thread Modules were helpful for this project.