Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is very good advise if in fact it is practised. The most common lens-cleaning I've seen people do with shirtsleeves, shirttails, Kleenex, the end of a necktie...basically any textile which comes to hand, occasionally aided by a breath or a drop of spittle. That's why permanently affixed UV filters make sense for very many people...the lesser of evils, you might say. I wouldn't be surprised if some lenses haven't arrived at the repair counter after being run through a dishwasher. I've always tried to be extraordinarily careful with my lenses but in 40 years there have been enough times that I've been *certain* I blew every particle off before I wiped, or that the cloth was completely free of any debris, and ended up with a neat spiral engravure in the coating, that I finally defected, with some shame but no reluctance, to the ranks of the UV-filter-users (thanks in part to multi-coating in recent years, and in part that I was using filters for b&w or polarisation...especially with Kodachrome...for 2/3 of my work anyway ). John Shaw once said you shouldn't use a UV filter as protection unless you could state exactly what you were protecting the lens *from*. My answer: from myself! Regards, Nigel On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:51:53 PST "Mikiro Mori" <arbos3@hotmail.com> writes: >Salut, LUGgers. I've been away from this list for >6 months. There's > >recently been some discussion on how to clean lenses. I usually clean > >lenses with fine sable brushes for water painting. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]