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aoresteen
Joined: 26 May 2004
Posts: 67
PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 3:09 pm   Post subject: Looking for Series VI Lens Caps

I need a number of Series VI screw-in lens caps. Seems that they are hard to find today. Back in the day Spiratone sold them.

If you have any that you want to sell please let me know.

I could also use a Series V lens cap and a Series VII as well.

Yes, I've searched the 'bay and bough the only two that were there.

Thanks!
Billy Canuck
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
Posts: 165
PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:57 pm

Yes, they're hard to find. I make do with improvised push-on caps, soft plastic tops from prescription pill containers. They come in many sizes. I have them to fit Series VI and VII. Not pretty, but they do the job.
aoresteen
Joined: 26 May 2004
Posts: 67
PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:42 pm

Billy,

I never thought of that! Good idea! Thanks! Maybe it will hold me untill I can find some real caps.
peter k
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
Posts: 207
PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:47 am

Like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kodak-Series-VI-6-Screw-In-Metal-Lens-Hood-N-28-/121222798802

or this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kodak-Series-V-and-Series-VI-Screw-on-Lens-Hood-/400620339496?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d46d54128

If this is not what you are looking for, could you please, perhaps link an image of what you have.
Thanks..
Henry
Joined: 09 May 2001
Posts: 1662
PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:29 am

Don't recall ever seeing series VI screw-in lens caps, but series VI diameter is 44 mm in case you don't know. Not that it will make your search any easier, I fear! I have numbers of the series VI lens hoods and attaching rings, for my variously sized push-on filter rings (also called "slip rings"). I too have resorted to a variety of improvised caps, as mentioned by Billy Canuck, and also fitted slip-on caps for the several lenses I own. Back in the days of camera shows you could pick these items up readily, but camera shows (good ones, at any rate) seem to have vanished (like Plus-X and Kodachrome!).
aoresteen
Joined: 26 May 2004
Posts: 67
PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:45 am

No, not a lens shade but a lens CAP. Like this one I bought on eBay. I had to buy the 37mm.5 adapter as well.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141125324763?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Spiratone for one sold them in the 70's.
45PSS
Joined: 28 Sep 2001
Posts: 4081
PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 5:27 am

http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/
possibly has 1.
Large format > accessories > Schneider/Rodenstock lens caps.
series filter/adapters/shades section may be of interest.
aoresteen
Joined: 26 May 2004
Posts: 67
PostPosted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:39 am

45PSS wrote:
http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/
possibly has 1.
Large format > accessories > Schneider/Rodenstock lens caps.
series filter/adapters/shades section may be of interest.

Thanks. Looks like each grab bag is different with no way to ensure I get a cap.
aoresteen
Joined: 26 May 2004
Posts: 67
PostPosted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 5:10 pm

Just to close this thread out I got the last Series VI lens cap that I need. So far I have yet to see a Series V cap on eBay.
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