Tool for installing and removing threaded camera lenses

A tool for installing and removing a lens, the tool comprising:

• a body having a cavity on a front end thereof, the cavity including inner sidewalls;
• and
• a pad constructed of an elastomeric material that is continuously formed so as to completely overlap the cavity and, in a resting state define a perimeter that extends radially beyond an outer perimeter edge of the tool at the front end,
• wherein the tool is constructed and arranged to engage a front face and outer sidewalls of the lens with the pad elastically deforming and compressing into the cavity against the inner sidewalls to provide a frictional engagement between the lens and the pad.

A system comprising:

• a lens having a front face, outer sidewalls adjacent the front face and an outer diameter of the outer sidewalls;
• a tool for installing and removing the lens, the tool comprising:
• a body having a cavity on a front end thereof, the cavity with inner sidewalls defining a diametral difference wherein an inner diameter of the inner sidewalls is greater than the outer diameter of the outer sidewalls of the lens;
• and
• a pad constructed of an elastomeric material that is continuously formed so as to completely overlap the cavity and, in a resting state define a perimeter that extends radially beyond an outer perimeter edge of the tool at the front end,
• wherein the tool is constructed and arranged to engage the front face and the outer sidewalls of the lens with the pad elastically deforming and compressing into the cavity against the inner sidewalls to provide a frictional engagement between the lens and the pad.