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Both grips, and seventeen sizes to choose from

LENS-AID 55 mm, centre pinch AND outer grip, 17 sizes

Six euros for a cap that can be squeezed in the middle or gripped at the edge, from a range of seventeen diameters — and it fits a filter’s thread as well as a lens.

LENS-AID universal lens cap showing its centre pinch and ribbed outer rim

LENS-AID 55 mm, centre pinch AND outer grip, 17 sizes

Six euros for a cap that can be squeezed in the middle or gripped at the edge, from a range of seventeen diameters — and it fits a filter’s thread as well as a lens.

Cap type
A front cap sold as a replacement, in the fourth bullet, for a lost original or as a spare kept permanently in the bag. That is the honest framing of what this shelf sells: nobody buys their first cap
Thread or mount fit
55 mm here, from a published range of SEVENTEEN diameters — 37, 39, 40, 43, 46, 49, 52, 55, 58, 62, 67, 72, 77, 82, 86, 95 and 105 mm, in the fifth bullet. The range includes the odd sizes that are hardest to find: 39, 40 and 43 mm belong to old primes and adapted lenses, and 86, 95 and 105 to large telephotos
Pinch mechanism
BOTH, and it is the only cap on this shelf that offers the pair: the third bullet says it can be squeezed on the inside OR the outside, and stays comfortable to use with a hood or a filter fitted. Centre for a hood, rim for cold fingers
Tether provision
None
Material
Not named
Pack contents
Not stated. What the second bullet adds instead is unusual: compatibility with Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Tamron and Sigma lenses AND with round filters of matching diameter — a cap that screws onto a filter rather than only onto a lens
Amazon reference
B0BL7KV8WY (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
4260668674074
  • Centre pinch and outer grip, the only cap here with both
  • Seventeen diameters published, including the hard-to-find 39, 40 and 43 mm
  • No tether, where the 4 € JJC has a keeper cord

Best for: An odd thread size a maker no longer supplies, or a bag where one spare cap should fit a filter as well as a lens.

≈ 6 €
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Specifications

Cap type
A front cap sold as a replacement, in the fourth bullet, for a lost original or as a spare kept permanently in the bag. That is the honest framing of what this shelf sells: nobody buys their first cap
Thread or mount fit
55 mm here, from a published range of SEVENTEEN diameters — 37, 39, 40, 43, 46, 49, 52, 55, 58, 62, 67, 72, 77, 82, 86, 95 and 105 mm, in the fifth bullet. The range includes the odd sizes that are hardest to find: 39, 40 and 43 mm belong to old primes and adapted lenses, and 86, 95 and 105 to large telephotos
Pinch mechanism
BOTH, and it is the only cap on this shelf that offers the pair: the third bullet says it can be squeezed on the inside OR the outside, and stays comfortable to use with a hood or a filter fitted. Centre for a hood, rim for cold fingers
Tether provision
None
Material
Not named
Pack contents
Not stated. What the second bullet adds instead is unusual: compatibility with Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Tamron and Sigma lenses AND with round filters of matching diameter — a cap that screws onto a filter rather than only onto a lens
Amazon reference
B0BL7KV8WY (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
4260668674074

On the listing

Five bullets, each opening with a tick. Protect your lens — the cap sits in front of the front element and helps guard the glass from dirt, damage and moisture in daily use; universally usable, compatible with Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Tamron and Sigma lenses as well as many round filters of matching diameter; centre pinch and outer grip, the cap squeezable inside or outside and remaining comfortable to operate with a lens hood or filter fitted; a practical replacement cap, ideal when the original has been lost or when an extra cap should stay permanently in the camera bag; and an exact fit, available in 37, 39, 40, 43, 46, 49, 52, 55, 58, 62, 67, 72, 77, 82, 86, 95 and 105 mm.

Both grips, on one cap

Centre for a hood, rim for cold fingers. The other two caps on this shelf each answer half of that, and this is the one that answers both.

Seventeen sizes, including the difficult ones

Thirty-nine, 40 and 43 millimetres exist on old primes and adapted lenses. Eighty-six, 95 and 105 exist on big telephotos. Original makers stop supplying both ends.

A cap for a filter

A filter that lives on the lens takes the cap that the lens used to. This page says so, which means one spare covers either.

Sold as a replacement, which is what it is

Nobody buys their first lens cap. The fourth bullet is the only one on this shelf to say so out loud.

What six euros leaves out

A cord, and a material. The 4 € JJC has the first; nothing on this shelf names the second except that same JJC.

Availability

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

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

Nothing came back from the American Amazon store at all, so the button for that country runs a search instead of opening an entry that is not there.

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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    Cap type
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    Thread or mount fit
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    Pinch mechanism
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    Tether provision
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    Material
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    Pack contents
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    B00A2BWAKK (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
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    • The E-58II part number identifies it unambiguously
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  • 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
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    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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    Shape
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    Lenses named
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    Filter access
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    Material
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    EAN
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    Shape
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    Lenses named
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    Material
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    EAN
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