This rear cap protects your lens from extreme temperatures and humidity
Dec 27, 2019
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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We all want to protect our precious gear from extreme conditions. Well, at least if we want it to live a long life and serve us well. And there’s a lens cap that can be your ally on this mission. It has a built-in hygrometer and thermometer to let you know if the humidity and temperature are too high for your lenses. And to be honest, it’s so weird that I just love it.
The lens cap first appeared on Japanese blog DC.Watch in November, and the first review was published earlier this month. The lens cap is unimaginatively named UNX-8595, but it’s a pretty unusual product. Basically, it’s a retro-looking thermo-hygrometer attached to the rear lens cap. Since it’s analog, you don’t need any batteries for it.
I guess it can be pretty useful to have it around unless you keep your gear in a humidity-proof case in the first place. This strange lens cap lets you monitor the conditions and make sure that your lenses are protected properly. The downside is that it’s two times thicker than a regular lens cap, so it takes up a bit more space. And it’s only available for Micro Four Thirds.
As for the price, it costs 1,980 yen ($18 USD) including tax in Japan, and it looks like it can only be bought online from retailers in Japan. But, if this strange lens cap arrives in the US and Europe – will you order it? Do you think it would be useful?
[via The Phoblographer; image credits: DC.Watch]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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12 responses to “This rear cap protects your lens from extreme temperatures and humidity”
Solving a problem nobody has?
Well, depends on where you live. When my sis was living in Thailand, she mentioned that she had trouble storing hear gear and film. :)
Dunja Djudjic A hygrometer built in to a lens cap just tells you what the humidity is. It won’t change the humidity. A thermometer built in to a lens cap will tell you what the temperature is. It won’t change the temperature. How is this useful? You could tape a watch to a lens cap and it will tell you what time it is. How would that help your lens?
Robbie Keene humidity it’s shit when it comes to gear…
Paula Gemin Bell I realize that. However, this solves absolutely zero.
Paula Gemin Bell Congratulations on not reading a single comment to understand what’s going on, and instead, just jumping in acting like you know what you’re talking about???
Robbie Keene No hope for these people lol
That would be helpful down here with Texas summers and super high humidity.
Karen Brodie check this out! You need this!
Read the article and conclude it’s pretty pointless. A big bag of silica gel inside your camera bag will absorb moisture thats around your gear once you’ve put it away again. N that’s pretty much all you can do to combat humidity fogging your lens elements and the cameras mirror, sensor ect.
What a hilarious and pointless creation
No it doesn’t protect your lens from extreme temperatures and humidity, it only includes a build in meter for those parameters.
Fancy? Yes. Effective? Not so much when your lens is packed in a back or container of some sort and you don’t see the dials, plus wouldn’t be able to do anything about it anyway when you’re out and about taking photos….