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Jul 28, 2005 07:49 |  #1

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.


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Jul 28, 2005 12:24 |  #2

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.

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Jul 28, 2005 12:31 |  #3

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.


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Jul 28, 2005 12:31 as a reply to  @ robertwgross's post |  #4

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 (external link)


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Jul 28, 2005 16:00 as a reply to  @ mdclaros's post |  #5

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.


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