Camera & Lens Cleaning

What are the essentials that most of you prefer for field use to clean lenses and camera etc...
Links to full kits appreciated, as all I have now is a few lens cloths.

Go to your local camera shop and look around. They should have a standard lens cleaning kit. It normally consists of a small blower-brush, a small bottle of lens cleaning solution, a small microfiber cloth, and a few pieces of lens tissue.

The last time I bought one of those, it was about $8.

---Bob Gross---

For over 40 years I have been using a squeeze-bulb blower for 95% of the time, and for the stuff that won't blow off I use Kodak lens tissue and ordinary lens cleaning fluids.

I would NEVER use anything that touches the lens more than once. This eliminates any cloth of any sort, lenspens, etc. There is a real danger of particles getting embedded in a cloth and then getting rubbed into the lens on the next pass.

What I do is use a single piece of lens tissue, folded once for the first pass. I then fold it again so that a different surface is used for the second pass, etc.

By being as careful as I am, I have never scratched a lens. I still have several of my 40-year-old cameras and all the lenses (at least the glass) look like new. There is a bunch of external wear, of course, but that's only paint.

my favorite is the lens cleaning paper. 3M sell boxes of them and it is used by laboratorists.
Kodak has it as well

here is a link to one I found at adorama

http://www.adorama.com​/KKLCT.html

Squeeze bulb, microfibre cloth or leather chamois and optical quality lens cleaning fluid. And always spary the cleaning fluids onto the cloth, never the lens.