Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

OK I admit it, I’m bored and uploading pictures of lens caps and filter holders is a really sad way to fill the time. However, it fulfils my OCD quota for the week so here goes.

Firstly, here is a piccie of the inside of my camera bag for reference.

And here are the bits taken out so you can see them.

I’ve only recenty reorganised everything to try to make it easily accesible. The interesting bits that I’ve recently been playing with are the new lens caps and filter holders, both inspired by Joe Cornish.

Firstly, the lens caps are probably fairly obvious in the pictures. They are actually Green and Blacks ice cream lids with Gaffer tape added to provide a push fit which will exclude dust. The labels are from a CD label kit I never used..

The key to getting a flush fit on the Lee adapters is to long strips of gaffer tape that can fit inside the lid which are added before the flaps you can see. These strips are stuck to the inside edge of the lid and are added to close the diameter of the lid slightly. I added four layers of gaffer tape and then added a final strip of gaffer tape on the outside that was then folded onto the inside (with judicious strips cut to stop creasing).

The other custom addition is my hacked lee filter kits. I took a razor to my Lee 10 filter holders and ended up with four thin books with five sleeves each. These now take up about half of the space and I can find and replace filters a lot faster. The finding bit is easier because of the clever sewing machine acrobatics courtesy of my wife Charlotte’s wizzy sewing machine. This allowed me to stitch on the names of each filter which makes flipping through all of the filters a snip.