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A cord, and two ways to attach it

JJC 52 mm centre-pinch, with a tether and a 3M pad

Four euros for a 52 mm centre-pinch cap with an elastic keeper, two ways to attach it, and nine lenses named.

JJC 52 mm centre-pinch lens cap with its elastic keeper cord attached

JJC 52 mm centre-pinch, with a tether and a 3M pad

Four euros for a 52 mm centre-pinch cap with an elastic keeper, two ways to attach it, and nine lenses named.

Cap type
A front cap for the filter thread, in the title and the fifth bullet. Not a rear cap and not a body cap — the distinction matters on this shelf, and the hub above compares front caps on how they pinch and whether they tether
Thread or mount fit
52 mm, with NINE LENSES NAMED in the fifth bullet across three systems: Canon EF-S 24 mm f/2.8, EF-M 18-55 mm, RF 35 mm F1.8 Macro; Nikon AF-S 18-55 mm, 35 mm f/1.8G, Z 24-50 mm, Z 40 mm f2; Fuji XC 15-45 mm and XF 18 mm f/2 R. The same bullet adds where to check: the thread size is on the barrel or under the cap
Pinch mechanism
CENTRE-PINCH, in the third bullet — squeeze the middle to fit or release. The centre pinch is what allows a hood to stay on: a cap gripped at its rim cannot be reached inside a hood, and the fourth bullet says outright that this one works with filters and a hood at the same time
Tether provision
SUPPLIED, with TWO fixings: one universal elastic lanyard, attached either by a 3M adhesive pad to the lens barrel or looped through the cap’s own mounting hole, in the first and third bullets. A cap on a cord is a cap that is not lost, and this is the only tether on this shelf
Material
ABS, in the fourth bullet, described as light and durable — the only material named on this shelf
Pack contents
Two items: one cap with a centre clamp, and one universal elastic keeper, in the first bullet
Amazon reference
B0DCJMYGFH (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
6974413519401
  • An elastic keeper with two fixings — a 3M pad or the cap’s own hole
  • Nine lenses named across Canon, Nikon and Fuji, plus where to read the thread
  • The adhesive pad leaves a mark on the barrel where it is stuck

Best for: A 52 mm lens whose cap keeps getting lost, used with a hood or a filter permanently fitted.

≈ £4 / 4 €
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Specifications

Cap type
A front cap for the filter thread, in the title and the fifth bullet. Not a rear cap and not a body cap — the distinction matters on this shelf, and the hub above compares front caps on how they pinch and whether they tether
Thread or mount fit
52 mm, with NINE LENSES NAMED in the fifth bullet across three systems: Canon EF-S 24 mm f/2.8, EF-M 18-55 mm, RF 35 mm F1.8 Macro; Nikon AF-S 18-55 mm, 35 mm f/1.8G, Z 24-50 mm, Z 40 mm f2; Fuji XC 15-45 mm and XF 18 mm f/2 R. The same bullet adds where to check: the thread size is on the barrel or under the cap
Pinch mechanism
CENTRE-PINCH, in the third bullet — squeeze the middle to fit or release. The centre pinch is what allows a hood to stay on: a cap gripped at its rim cannot be reached inside a hood, and the fourth bullet says outright that this one works with filters and a hood at the same time
Tether provision
SUPPLIED, with TWO fixings: one universal elastic lanyard, attached either by a 3M adhesive pad to the lens barrel or looped through the cap’s own mounting hole, in the first and third bullets. A cap on a cord is a cap that is not lost, and this is the only tether on this shelf
Material
ABS, in the fourth bullet, described as light and durable — the only material named on this shelf
Pack contents
Two items: one cap with a centre clamp, and one universal elastic keeper, in the first bullet
Amazon reference
B0DCJMYGFH (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
6974413519401

On the listing

Five bullets. Contents of one lens cap with a centre clamp plus one universal elastic lanyard; protection of the lens from dust, dirt, fingerprints and scratches, with the keeper preventing the cap being lost; easy use by squeezing the centre of the cap to fit it quickly to the front of the lens, and the keeper fixed with a 3M adhesive pad or looped through the cap’s mounting hole; made of ABS, light and durable, and usable with filters and a lens hood at the same time; and a Ø52MM bullet listing Canon EF-S 24 mm f/2.8, EF-M 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6, RF 35 mm F1.8 Macro, Nikon AF-S 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6G, 35 mm f/1.8G, Z 24-50 mm f/4-6.3, Z 40 mm f2, Fuji XC 15-45 mm f/3.5-5.6 and XF 18 mm f/2 R, with a note that the thread size is marked on the barrel or under the cap.

A cord, which is the whole point

A lens cap’s failure mode is not breaking — it is being left on a wall. This is the only cap on this shelf that arrives with something to stop that.

Squeeze the middle, not the rim

The centre pinch is what lets a cap come off inside a hood. Without it, the hood comes off first and then stays off.

Two ways to fix the keeper

A 3M pad on the barrel, or a loop through the cap’s own hole. One is permanent and marks the lens; the other marks nothing.

Nine lenses, three systems

Canon, Nikon and Fuji, named individually. A cap fits a thread, and naming the lenses tells you which threads those are.

Where the number is printed

On the barrel, or under the cap you are replacing. The fifth bullet spends a line on the mistake that returns most caps.

Availability

Between 4 € and 6 € on the German, French and Spanish Amazon stores when this page was last checked.

The British Amazon store carry it too, priced in local currency. Those amounts are deliberately absent from the range above, which reads euro stores only.

On the Italian Amazon store the asking price sits more than 1.6× above the cheapest country. A difference that wide usually means a reshipper rather than a seller on the ground, so it is kept out of the figures above.

Listed in the American Amazon catalogue with nothing on sale against the entry: the camera has a page there and no seller behind it.

Everything in this section is the figure Keepa carried on the day of the last update to this page. Availability and prices shift without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 13 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

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