Right now is the perfect time for the Rolling Stone's Paint it Black

nice music on vid , nice editing , subtle humor , not so sure about the lense cap replacment seemed to work though.

For around $2 you could order a new lens shroud.

Or you could turn your $3000 camera and $2000 lens into a jerry-rigged, junkyard camera.

Hipsters......

It would probably be a good idea to spray paint the part black before installing to avoid flaring.

Personally I'd go on thingiverse.com to see if someone's already made a lens hood:
http://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=lens+hood&sa=Search
and print it out. But then I have a Makerbot and when you have a 3d printer, every problem is plastic waiting to be put in the right shape...

In any case, makeshift solutions are very cool. Realizing you're able to solve a lot of problems yourself is very empowering, and usually fixing stuff isn't hard at all. Case in point, a while ago I dropped my camera, too, and the shutter button got stuck in the focus position. Olympus gave me a repair quote that came to about half the price of a new camera, so I thought I'd take a chance and see if I can fix it myself. All it took was undoing some screws, googling around a bit to see how to take some of the less obvious parts off, and presto, the button was unstuck and I saved a nice bit of cash.

DIY!

I fixed my LCD screen with 3 capicitors and a a 10quid solder kit. Boy that felt gooooooooood.

*engineering

Adding video to channels (Engineering) - requested by ant.

I saw no Mercedes SLR and he didnt use the peanut butter itself!