Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lens manufacturers like Tokina use Anhydroxous Ethly Alcohol. This alcohol is not available to consumers. While you can use any pure alcohol (methanol is not a bad substitute), you can also use acetone which is also an excellent cleaner providing you only wipe it on the glass. It can dissolve some cements so care should be taken. For the consumer there is actually a very good cleaner from Photographic Solutions called Eclipse Optical Cleaning Solution. The name recently changed from Crystal Clear. The product is 100% pure alcohol and recommended by Tokina and Hasselblad. You can read about them at http://www.photosol.com/crystal3.html. Very inexpensive too! Peter K