Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I found the following a couple of weeks ago in a newsgroup (no need to reopen the discussion on newsgroups again). Has any of our english friends ever used it? I could not find it here. It sounds not bad that you don't have to wipe a lot on the lens, however the chemistry might hurt the coating. christoph >Yes, OptiClean is indeed the best lens cleaner I have ever used. I >obtained mine from the UK (it is made there). It looks like a small >bottle of nail polish and is applied on the lens/filter in circular >strokes. After leaving to cure for a few minutes, a sticky tab is >applied on top of the cured film. Again, another short wait before >tugging the tab away. This will lift the film off the lens and take with >it any dust, grime, fingerprints etc., leaving a sparklingly clean lens. >You need to ensure that during application, there is a 1mm gap left >between the film and the edge of where the lens meets the barrel. If >not, some of the film might remain stuck to the side. >I hear that they use this to clean optical telescopes. >Any photo shop in the UK (especially the big chains) should stock this. >If you want the manufacturer's address, email me and I'll let you have >it. >regards, >-- >Chi-Wei YAP Phone: +619 380 1592,7183 _--_|\ >Video Comms Research Group Fax : +619 380 1065 / \ >Dept of Electrical Engineering *_.--._/ >University of Western Australia v >Crawley, WA 6907, AUSTRALIA Email: cwyap@ee.uwa.edu.au - -- "I [..] am rarely happier then when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Ten seconds, I tell myself, is ten seconds. Time is valuable and ten seconds' worth of it is well worth the investment of a days's happy activity working out a way to save it". -- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"