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Definition of Lens cap
1. Noun. Cap used to keep lens free of dust when not in use.
Definition of Lens cap
1. Noun. (photography) The detachable cap that protects the camera lens when the camera is not in use. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lens Cap
Literary usage of Lens cap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Photography in a Nutshell by Henry Philip Hawkes (1898)
"To prevent their getting lost, it is a good plan to attach to the middle of each
lens cap a small brass ring. A silk cord or light metal chain, ..."
2. The Photography of Coloured Objects by Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (1916)
"When slip-on metal cells are used there is some danger of pulling the cell off
if a lens cap be used over it, but such a cap is unnecessary if a ..."
3. Photography for Students of Physics and Chemistry by Louis Derr (1913)
"The lens cap should fit just tightly enough to retain its hold on the barrel when
the ... With care and a properly fitted lens cap exposures down to about ..."
4. The American Annual of Photography (1909)
"Or by setting the shutter wide open the lens cap can be used in the same way,
treating its top edge as a pivot and raising it slowly from the bottom, ..."
5. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1902)
"Therefore, if using a lens cap, pass a stout carpet thread, with knot at end,
through edge of cap and tie the other end ..."
6. The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America (1916)
"This was also home-made, from an old lens-cap, and the glass is part of a fixed-out,
well-washed dry plate that had not been exposed. ..."
7. International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin and American Process by Frederick J Harrison, W I Scandlin (1898)
"lens cap. If you make your exposures with the lens cap, see that it is not too
tight, and be careful, in taking it off, not to shake the camera. ..."
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