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12/22/2005 08:54:33 PM · #1 |
What can I clean my lens if I dont have any lens cleaner right now?
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12/22/2005 08:56:55 PM · #2 |
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12/22/2005 09:26:03 PM · #3 |
| Ditto your t-shirt works great. After a couple hundred times it tends to scratch the lens though. |
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01/04/2006 03:07:28 PM · #4 |
May be a stupid question...
I need to replace my old lens cleaning supplies (lens paper & cleaning fluid).
What does everybody use? Thoughts on the safest way to clean your lens? I heard something the other day about a chamois type cloth. I have a lenspen for light dust particles or smudges.
Feedback please. Thanks!
Barry
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01/04/2006 03:14:42 PM · #5 |
| I bought a cloth designed for cleaning glasses. Works fine, cost about five euros. |
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01/04/2006 03:15:53 PM · #6 |
| I went to WalMart and got an eye glass lens cleaning kit. It's small and fits easily into a camera bag. |
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01/04/2006 03:17:40 PM · #7 |
The dishwasher will get it very clean :-)
Oh, you mean the front element of the lens? uality lens-cleaning fluid and a microfiber cloth. Optometrists have them. Your biggest fear is embedded grit in the cloth causing scratches on the lens surface. You should not have to rub very hard at all. The lens surface should be blown and lightly dusted with a soft brush first to temove any fine particulate matter.
That's as far as I've ever worried about it.
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01/04/2006 03:19:14 PM · #8 |
| I bought some individually wrapped clothes at the eye dept. in Wal Mart the other night. They were $3 and I can rip off 5 or 6 packages and keep them in my bag. Seem to work great! |
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01/04/2006 03:21:05 PM · #9 |
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01/04/2006 03:22:13 PM · #10 |
Ok...thanks everybody. I think that's the way I'm going to go; with eyeglass cleaning supplies. It's funny, I wear eyeglasses but I always clean them with mild soap and dry with a soft cotton towel. The paper products I've seen (specific lens paper included) always made me nervous.
Thanks again. ;^)
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01/04/2006 03:25:32 PM · #11 |
I'll second Telehubbie's lenspen suggestion. I really dig mine. Any camera shop should have one. And it was mentioned in a recent thread (I havn't gone and looked yet) that at Wal-mart or similar dept. stores, they may have them in sporting goods for cleaning scopes, binoculars etc. for about half the price.
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01/04/2006 03:39:56 PM · #12 |
I already have a nice lenspen, and yes, it does a good job with light dust or a smudge. I'm looking for something to handle the bigger job when/if it happens. For example, I was at the river a while back and it was really muddy.
Inadvertently I got some fairly heavy dust and particles on the lens that I didn't want to touch with the lens cleaning fluid and lens paper I had. I waited until I got back to the house and used a damp cloth to lift the dirt off first, then cleaned it with the lens cleaning fluid and paper. This was with my Z3. Since then I've acquired a Maxxum 5D and I want to treat it (and the glass) the right way. I'm still a bit of a Boy Scout and prefer to be prepared in advance (cleaning items)...currently the lens is clean. ;^)
Originally posted by taterbug:
I'll second Telehubbie's lenspen suggestion. I really dig mine. Any camera shop should have one. And it was mentioned in a recent thread (I havn't gone and looked yet) that at Wal-mart or similar dept. stores, they may have them in sporting goods for cleaning scopes, binoculars etc. for about half the price. |
Message edited by author 2006-01-04 15:40:18.
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