how do you cover your eye piece

[GFY]

just picked up a Zeiss 85 mm spotter on ebay and it came with a front lens cover but no eye piece cover. After doing a few simple google searches I am not turning up any aftermarket cover. Does anyone run theirs without covering the eye piece while carrying it in your backpack? If not what do you use.

thanks,

RJ

 

[muleman]

Call Zeiss and ask for one.

 

[squeekieslayer]

The stock cover for the zeiss eyepiece BLOWS. It will not stay on. I took some elastic band and hot glued it around the rim so that it would stay on... It looks terrible but works. I want to find some one to make a neoprene or similar cover for the eye piece... it would be simple, just a tube about the size of the eye piece.

Joe

 

[GFY]

Thanks. I have a pair of very old holy waders that will probably work perfect.

RJ

 

[Blockcaver]

I use a neoprene "cozy" designed for a bottle or can as the eye piece cover . It has a solid bottom. I hook a hole I cut in it near the rim over the alignment "peep"on my angled Swaro. This has worked perfectly for 4 years now and cost nothing as the cozy was free. The stock Swaro eye piece cap always fell off in my pack too and I was always afraid I would scratch the lens before. Not with the cozy cover. Don't know what you would hook the cozy to on a Zeiss as I haven' looked at them. On my little Nikon ED50 I am looking for something that might save a couple of ounces but haven't perfected anything as of yet.

 

[vegas hunter]

I bought some fabric at Walmart and pinned it together how I wanted it with paracord through the bottom edge. Took that to a alterations guy and he sewed it up for $15. I do still have the original rubber cup on to but it falls off constantly when in your pack so this goes over and cinches it on. In the near future i will get some elastic cord to replace the paracord as I believe that would be quicker and easier.

 

[GFY]

Thanks for all the input guys. I have about 200 cozy's and will give that a shot. When I get back. Headed into the breaks in the morning. I made one out of a gator aid bottle and duck tape.