DVL-Digest 645 - Postings: Index My dirty camera lens... Sensitive! My dirty camera lens... - Adam Wilt Danny's info is right on the mark. There's little I can add, but there is a bit... 1) I agree completely that the Kodak-branded lens cleaning tissues are the only ones that seem to work. Odd, counterintuitive perhaps, but true nonetheless. 2) I've been using a microfiber cloth for three years now, always as the final cleaning stage (I've used a blower and/or a tissue to remove the larger boulders, cow-pats, dead bugs, and the like already). I wash it every so often, and so far it's been fine. I've never dragged grit with the cloth, it's always been perfectly OK even after a lot of use. 3) Along with the microfiber cloth, the biggest advance in lens cleaning is "ROR", Residual Oil Remover (http://www.ror.net/). This stuff is totally amazing. For the first time ever I can get lenses that are not just acceptably clean, they look like new lenses. No, I don't work for them, own any stock, or have their adversising contract, but a little 2-oz bottle of the stuff goes with me any time I'm shooting. My normal procedure is a 3 stage one: 1) blow off the lens with a squeeze-bulb blower and/or use a camel's hair brush. 2) Remove the larger chunks of chunder with Kodak paper and a fluid cleaner (or a lot of heavy breathing to fog the lens -- never wipe a dry lens!). 3) Use ROR or heavy breathing, and wipe up with the microfiber cloth. If the soil is light, I'll skip step #2. Cheers, Adam Wilt Sensitive! - Adam Wilt I had to pop down a local pub last night to see a mate in a band. Yes, I use that excuse, too. ;-> > It was the usual red light jobby (why do pub bands always use red light?) Makes the band look good without makeup. That way they really do look like hunky guys and lissome vixens, instead of blotchy drunken musicians with bad complexions and worse attitudes. As you found many of the cameras couldn't shoot well in dim red light. Boozy patrons may similarly find it difficult to properly aim a tossed bottle in the hazy red glare. >8-0 Cheers, Adam Wilt (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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