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Mennon White balance lens cap 52mm |  | Brand: Mennon
Category: Photography
List Price: $5.95
Buy New: $0.45
as of 9/5/2010 11:28 PDT details
You Save: $5.50 (92%)
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Seller: cowboystudio
Rating:  4 reviews
Color: Black and white
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 3.7 x 2.8 x 0.5
MPN: WB-52
Model: WB-52
EAN: 6944865203050
ASIN: B0019BJZ8C
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Capture Accurate Color | | • | Works in Mixed and Difficult Lighting | | • | Replace Your Gray Cards and White Cards | | • | Convenient, fast and easy-to-use | | • | Reclaim Time Spent Correcting Color |
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Product Description
This brand new White Balance Cap made of durable plastic with neutral tone, suitable for use with any digital SLR and digital video camera with a white balance function and consists of 3 parts: filter mount, detachable cap and a hand strap. A simple instruction manual is included with the Lens Cap.
To use this White Balance Cap simply attach the cap and set custom white balance on your camera. # Set the manual mode on your camera for White Balance. # Attach the lens cap to the lens. # Set the lens focus length to telephoto mode. # Aim your camera to the photographed object. # Keep the white balanced value.
* Affordable for amateur and enthusiast photographers * Functions as a Lens Cap
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| Customer Reviews:
This is the most useful accessory I bought for my Nikon D80 December 3, 2008
Ismet Utebayev (NY, NY)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
In addition to registering a very accurate white balance for each scene, this thing also can be used for setting the correct exposure. I was totally blown away by this little discovery and a great trick. This little thing allows you to turn your camera into a spot light meter and saves you $300!
1. Attach your Mennon WB lens cap (well, this is obvious).
2. Set your camera to manual focus and focus it to infinity.
3. Set your camera in aperture priority mode.
4. Come as close to your subject as possible, position your camera so that the lens cap plane is perpendicular to your subject AND lies in the same plane with the light source or direction of light - you'll figure it out. Make sure that you don't cast shadow on the cap with your body, and also that your cap is NOT facing the light source. Example: if you are taking a picture of a person, hold the camera so that your lens is directed upwards, and the cap is near the subject's chin.
5. Remember the shutter speed (if you are in aperture priority mode) that yields the best exposure.
6. Take WB reading.
7. Return to the position you will be shooting from. Frame your subject, and check the shutter speed reading. If it is different from the one you've just measured, switch to the manual mode, and dial in the correct shutter speed.
8. Take a shot.
9. Be amazed at how correctly your subject is exposed (your foreground and background may still have not very accurate exposure, but that's due to the difference in lighting, so reframe your shot and shoot again, if it happens).
10. I am now able to get the correct exposure in 99% of my shots. I can't rely on automatic exposure meter anymore since it almost always either underexposes or overexposes my images.
If lighting level is homogeneous at the scene (for example, in an overcast day), you can measure the exposure from any point, but it is rarely the case. Usually though if lighting is uniform, your automatic light meter is able to measure the exposure correctly, so you don't really need to use the cap. But this would happen under the assumption that your subject is 18% gray, so if it is not true - a very light or dark subject, then you should use the cap.
Good luck!
get the color right January 6, 2009
Vladimer Shioshvili (Washington, DC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I don't use it all the time, as auto white balance on the camera is usually pretty good. But it's very useful when lighting is tricky and I prefer to use manual white balance to get the color right. It works like a charm. You can screw on the ring and use this as a cap that easily attaches and detaches. I am not sure about the strap though, it's a bit short.
You Get What You Pay For April 21, 2010
Jay-Z Fetish (Missoula, MT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After my original lens cap went missing, I figured I'd give this one a shot as a replacement considering that it's only nine bucks and it offers the ability to white balance. So far, it's definitely been worth the money, albeit not without its faults.
It does feel a little cheap, as it's mostly made of thin plastic, but so far it's been pretty sturdy. The ring that screws into the lens itself is kind of a bitch to get on or off, but I think that might be a purposeful design decision so you don't lose the dang thing. The lanyard on the cap is nice for keeping track of said cap, but if you don't hang on to it anyway it usually gets in the way, so most of the time it's not worth it. When it comes down to white balancing, though, I haven't found anything that works as well. Maybe I'm just a stupid idiot who's bad at things, but using a white balance card always takes me way too long and often ends up being slightly off if I don't redo it after every shot. Either way, this cap makes it way easier on me.
Its worth to you will definitely depend on how much white balancing you do. On my dSLR I usually set white balance on Auto and then tweak it in post if need be, but I've found that when I'm doing video projects for school, it's the best investment I've made in terms of simplifying my shoots since everything is manual on the video side of thing. It's not perfect, but it's most definitely worth the [...] (assuming the price hasn't fluctuated by the time you're reading this).
 Good handy product May 14, 2010
Awn Rizvi (Hightstown, NJ)
This is a good handy product and give better results as compared to using auto white balance settings. One thing that I didnt like is the adapter screw-on, which doesnt let my original lens cap to be placed over.
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