New: Nikon Body Cap Compatibility. Weird juju here in California; after about 30 years of using Nikons with no issues I discovered and solved a body cap compatibility problem.
Glue the body cap on
Glue the body cap onto the Pringles can with super glue.
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Always keep a body cap on the camera body when no lens is attached.
Tilt the camera body down when changing lenses and inspecting the low-pass filter.
body cap - a cap to close the lens mount, and keep dust out of the camera when the lens is removed from the body.
bokeh is how a lens draws unsharp/out-of-focus image areas ...
A body cap protects the camera when no lens is attached.
Protect filters keep the front element of your lens from getting scratched or dirty.
Cover the lens with a lens cap (or a body cap if you have no lens installed).
Set the lens to manual focus, if it's an autofocus lens, so that the camera doesn't try to focus.
Nikon D3S digital SLR body & body cap
BS-2 accessory shoe cover
EN-EL4a Lithium-ion battery
MH-22 Quick Charger & power cable
UC-E4 USB cable & cable clip
EG-D2 A/V cable
shoulder strap
Software CD-ROM ...
Alternatives are shooting with weird and wacky lenses such as the Lensbaby, a pinhole or Holga body cap lens for your DSLR. You could go the whole hog and take a toy film camera such as a Holga or a Lomo.
Create a system of removing the body cap and rear end lens cap to minimize the time the camera is open. The longer the sensor is exposed, the more time there is for a spec of dust to lodge itself inside.
You can also build a "digital one" by making a small hole with a needle in the middle of your camera body cap. Made some nice photos with it in Paris, although not nearly as sharp as analog
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Mike says: ...
For example, you can keep dust out by keeping a body cap on the camera whenever a lens is not attached. You can turn the camera downwards when a lens is not attached so that dust can't fall in simply due to gravity.
Usually, there's a 50mm "body cap" which, as long as it looks decent, will do just fine.
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