The Ricoh Theta X is a great camera, but it has one dreadful shortcoming: its lenses aren’t replaceable. Puluz lens guards may be used to protect the lenses. Here’s a 3D-printed lens cover that fits over the Puluz lens guards.

Like all fisheye-style 360 cameras, the Ricoh Theta X’s focal length is so short that any scratch on the lenses will create a blurry spot in the image. And because the lenses need to stick out to capture the image all around the camera, they’re very exposed and very, VERY easy to scratch.

In other words, one wrong move, one small mishap, and there goes you expensive Ricoh camera.

Fortunately, it’s possible to install Puluz lens guards on the Theta X. They’re really designed for the Theta SC2, S or V models, and they’re not a perfect fit on the Theta X. But they stay in place well enough to work, and they have almost no impact on the image quality.

At least with those lens guards, if you drop the camera, you can simply replace the lens guard for very cheap rather than the whole camera.

The Puluz lens guards stick out even more than the camera’s own lenses though, so no lens cover will fit, and the silicone “eyepatch” supplied by Puluz isn’t terribly convenient in my opinion.

So I added a deeper version of my 3D-printed lens cover that will accommodate the Puluz lens guards. You can get the model in this repo:

https://github.com/Giraut/ricoh_theta_x_3d-printed_accessories