Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Adam Bridge wrote: > >> Okay, I was cleaning my lens, I'd taken off the UV filter, and I TOUCHED >THE DAMN COATED LENS. It has a map of Brazil on it now. >> Adam, Lens coatings are far from fragile. You would have to make a direct effort to damage the coating. It is an ion deposit bonded to the glass. It is not something that is just painted on. You can clean your lens as much as you wish, using ROR or ClearSight (I endorse ClearSight) and a microfiber cloth, or a shirt tail, or breath and underware, whatever. It simply is not easy to hurt a lens. That said, I advise against breaking the filter you have in front of your lens as the shards of filter glass will gouge gashes in your lens coating. Filters are wonderful things for enhancing a photographic result, but are a liability in all other respects. Jim