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I expect you've all been doing this for years but anyway, I keep a short piece of black plastic insulating tape stuck on my lens body to put over the eye piece when taking time exposures on a tripod. Can't stand the fiddle of removing the rubber surround and fitting the plastic cover supplied with the camera.
 
i flick the eypiece switch that does the same (canon 1d)
 
I have black tape covering the in-your-face branding on lens caps. No sense in drawing undue attention to my nickable gear.
 
Light entering via the eye piece can throw of exposure / metering I believe.
 
Dunno Gary, I've tried covering and not and can't see any obvious difference. Maybe if the sun was shining directly into viewer?
 
I wondered what that silly little bit of plastic was for. Thanks.
 
I've never covered the eyepiece (camera always used remotely, outside) and have never had a problem......
 
Jacco said:
I have black tape covering the in-your-face branding on lens caps. No sense in drawing undue attention to my nickable gear.
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How does this make it any less obviously an expensive SLR and lens?
 
yups, my mate does this with his 5d too. says thieves obviously know what to look out for and if it looks like some old russian camera then less likely to try and take it!
 
Yes, I've seen Pro's cover up brand names using black tape, makes sense really and avoids brand rage.

As for covering the viewfinder, my preference is a blob of Blu-Tak
 
sprog said:
Yes, I've seen Pro's cover up brand names using black tape, makes sense really and avoids brand rage.
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I go further too: I've painted all big eye-sore brand names on my gear (straps, camera bags and backpacks) black with a big black felt marker.
And in inner cities I carry my gear in a used shopping bag from a local supermarket.

Anything to avoid advertising "Please nick me!".
 
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