Canon Has Patented a Lens Cap You Just Can't Lose - turkallynay

Unrivalled of the nearly painful moments of being a photographer is when you lose the tutelar lens crest of your camera. Erstwhile the lens cap is lost, the chances of lens acquiring scratched and muddy increases putting you in a constant state of anxiety and press to do by the camera with extra care. Spare lens caps can come handy but the fact is that almost of the photographers don't have one. Canyon at last acknowledges the issue and has muster with a solvent that won't actually require you to go on a lens cover lying about.

The camera giant has filed a manifest in Japan for a genus Lens cap that is attached to the camera itself which avoids using an external lens cap. This new Lens cap design fanny dish up two purposes. It will do as a lens system cap when non in use and will behave like a lens cowl when the camera is used. The description of the patent reads "The submit invention works as a lens hood function at the clock of shooting and as a lens aegis function at the time of non-shooting, thus eliminating the call for for lens cap attachment / removal and roadblock opening / closing operations."

Canon Has Patented a Lens Cap You Just Can't Lose

However, the patent does not bring out much information on the target cameras where this parvenu lens cap design bequeath be implemented. Looking the emphasis on the barrels, it appears like this design is many likely to be seen on point-and-shoot cameras factory-made by Canon.

Also, there is no timeline regarding when this hot figure will be implemented in the upcoming Canon cameras. Stay tuned for more updates as we will be application when the premiere camera from Canyon flaunting this other lens cap design comes out to the market. So, what do you think of Canyon adapting the lens-crownwork free design? Share your thoughts with US in the comments.