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Follow Agx advice. Use the plentiful plastic take out containers. Easy to stack. Although if you can spend $20,000 on a camera/ lens outfit, what’s $70?
 

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The perfect container for your dispensary purchases. Or a great whiskey glass. If you don't finish it, screw the lid on it for tomorrow.

Too high end for my Jim Beam though, proper etiquette says it should go into a small mason jar.
 

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$60 of that is for the red dot, which self-conscious Leicaphiles will black out.
 

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I guess these could be useful for retail Leica dealers and used camera stores .....
 

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MattKing said:
I guess these could be useful for retail Leica dealers and used camera stores .....
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They're more useful for collectors. That way, they can have their lenses nicely dust-proofed and displayed with their cameras.

All the lens bubbles I have are scratched and cracked....
 

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Don Heisz said:
They're more useful for collectors. That way, they can have their lenses nicely dust-proofed and displayed with their cameras.

All the lens bubbles I have are scratched and cracked....
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I would hope a serious collector would keep his precious gear in a glass-fronted case in a climate-conditioned room. No need for plastic (horrors!) containers.
 

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Pieter12 said:
I would hope a serious collector would keep his precious gear in a glass-fronted case in a climate-conditioned room. No need for plastic (horrors!) containers.
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No no - these go inside the glass-fronted case. They're more for arranging. Think of how uniform the collection would look in a line of these.
 

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I hope it comes with a little packet of black-chrome-plated silica gel. Gold-plated would be too garish.
 

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I've always heard them called "lens bubbles". Is "lens containers" the correct term?
 

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"Lens Bubble" is more descriptive. Whereas "Lens Container" may include the classic fake-leather tube-shaped case too.




(Be cautious with any wisdom of the non-native speaker...)
 

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With your ironic remark on their cultural meaning you at once made me think of glass bells used to cover a sculpture of Holy Mary at a sitting room, something I often came across in Belgium, but never over here.


(I use true glass and perspex bells to show a few of my cameras.)
 
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The bokeh taking a photo through the lens container is breathtaking.
 
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