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How do you clean your camera lenses? (1 Viewer)
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Keith Reeder
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A few blasts with a Rocket (lens held upside down) to remove any sand, grit and the like, then a very gentle wipe with a clean lens cleaning cloth.
Lens cleaning
airosol air can, and something called a lens pen. It has a brush at one end and a pad (with cleaner in it) on the other, very good about €8 I think. Got it from a camera shop.
All the best
Stephen Christopher
www.catalanbirdtours.com
senatore said:
airosol air can, and something called a lens pen. It has a brush at one end and a pad (with cleaner in it) on the other, very good about €8 I think. Got it from a camera shop.
All the best
Stephen Christopher
www.catalanbirdtours.com
Atricapilla
Still Wandering
I have a lens pen ,but how long does the cleaner inside last as mine is 2 years old?Stephen C said:
bobwoodcock said:
I'm not sure how long they are supposed to last, but personally I never got on well with mine. It didn't seem to be a very good system, so I've reverted to a blower brush and lens cloth.
Chris Oates
Why does a Black-headed Gull have a brown head...
rezMole said:
By sensor cleaning fluid do you mean something like Eclipse fluid ??
If so I'm not sure Methanol is good for lens coatings.
Keith Reeder
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I think that's a very good point, Chris..!
martin kitching
Obsessed seawatcher
Chris Oates said:
Eclipse is marketed as a lens cleaning fluid, and is the recommended lens cleaner for Tokina and Hoya. So these companies at least don't have any concerns about its use for lens cleaning.
What exactly do you think methanol is going to do to the lens coating?
martin
Pluvius
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The Hama Lenspen without doubt the best item for cleaning Scopes, Binoculars and Digital cameras. Canon are supposed to use them in their repair centres. Go into Warehouseexpress click on digital and on LHS click on accessories (misc) then click on cleaning eqpt. Then click on lens cleaning. Hama Lenspen £8.99. Artie Morris at Birdsasart.com highly recommends them here www.birdsasart.com/lenspens.htm.
However if you do buy one of these and want to clean your sensor with a Lens Pen, it is vital that you open the Lens Pen and then tamp (not rub) the tip of the Lens Pen on the micro-fiber cloth about 10-20 times (fairly gently) until only a tiny bit of graphite is evident on the cloth. Do not be tempted to rub the graphite off as this may dislodge the tip of the Lens Pen. The graphite that comes off on the micro-fiber cloth will not hurt your lens the next time you clean it because the graphite is designed to clean lenses.
www.peregrinesbirdblog.blogspot.com
However if you do buy one of these and want to clean your sensor with a Lens Pen, it is vital that you open the Lens Pen and then tamp (not rub) the tip of the Lens Pen on the micro-fiber cloth about 10-20 times (fairly gently) until only a tiny bit of graphite is evident on the cloth. Do not be tempted to rub the graphite off as this may dislodge the tip of the Lens Pen. The graphite that comes off on the micro-fiber cloth will not hurt your lens the next time you clean it because the graphite is designed to clean lenses.
www.peregrinesbirdblog.blogspot.com
martin kitching
Obsessed seawatcher
stevo said:
I'm ~100% certain that lens coatings are magnesium fluoride. In which case they will be completely unaffected by methanol, so suggestions that Eclipse (or any other methanol-based lens cleaning fluid) will damage your lens coatings are ill-informed.
martin
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