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Stupid question: how do I get this lens guard off (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/photography@lemmy.world
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UPDATE: folks either I'm an idiot or posting this caused the gods of irony to come to my aid because with a few more careful tries I was able to screw off the guard.

Hey folks, I recently bought this Pentax Q10 camera off of eBay, and so far I've had a lot of fun with it.

It came with this lens guard attached, which is a nice addition. However, I can't seem to get it off. I can't turn it, I can't pry it up. It seems thoroughly stuck. Obviously I haven't tried super hard, because I don't want to break anything.

Am I missing anything obvious or should I accept that this is just how the lens is? It doesn't seem to really get in the way or anything.

Closeup on a camera lens, attached to the camera. The lens has a lens guard on it. The guard is branded Hakuba, and is labelled as an MC Lens Guard. The camera is a blue and white Pentax Q10. The background is a wooden table.
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

As the others have said, it unscrews. I have nothing meaningful to contribute, so I'll spin this yarn instead:

For the first time, I took my full birding rig with me on my last motorcycle trip. If you need to undo a recalcitrant filter from the end of your lens barrel I advise you just chuck it in your motorcycle luggage. The vibrations, most likely from some stints of off-road riding, unscrewed the filters on all of my lenses inside my camera case. Strangely enough it did not knock off any of my lens caps in the process.

Insofar as I'm able to determine this experience did not break any of my in-lens image stabilizers or autofocus motors.

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