Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wish I could clean my lenses with as much reckless abandon as you.... :-) When I do as you recommend, I get small scratches (like the ones on your car hood when you rub too hard) on the lens...... Francesco At 09:13 PM 1/29/98 -0500, you wrote: >Francesco wrote: > ><<<What about things collecting in the micro-fiber and leaving scratches on >the glass?>>>>> > >Francesco, > >you are over worrying about this cleaning thing. > >if you need to clean a major smudge, just breathe hard on the glass, pull >out your shirt tail and use a circular motion and clean it off. And you can >do that several times until the lens is clean. > >Or as Jim or whomever suggested, just use a lens cleaning cloth in a >circular motion. If your panicky about that, buy 100 cleaning clothes and >use them once and throw it away! > >Or as I have done on more than one occasion due to whatever got sprayed on >the lens, (beer, coke, salt water) to name a few. Spit on the lens just as >many of us had our mothers spit on a small cloth and wipe our dirty faces >as kids, and wipe the lens clean. A little more heavy breathing and rubbing >and the lens is clean and unscratched. > >You are definitely over concerned. In all my years I have only had one >lens get a "zit" on it and that was due to working too close to an electric >welder and a molten spark from the welding rod landed on the 28mm lens. It >"burned a zit on the surface" but even when stopped down to 22 it wasn't >visible there was anything there. > >I did however sell the lens to a buddy for a very good price and bought a >new one.:) But other than that and with all the cleaning and rubbing my >lenses have had from western cowboy country, to the desert, the arctic and >on the oceans, I've just breathed hard and rub them clean and the images >just keep coming out as crisp and sharp and saturated as though the lens >was new! :) > >I mean these are Leica glass lenses we're using, not the bottom of coke >bottles. :) > >ted > >The front element > Francesco Sanfilippo, Five Senses Productions webmaster@5senses.com http://www.5senses.com/