Re: [Leica] Re: lens chamois

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

Hey Ted,

Thanks for the chuckle and the good tip.  Since my philosophy is "Never
throw anything out you never know when you might need it!" I think I have a
ready supply of lens cleaning cloths.  Like you say they are expendable if
they become the least bit suspect.

Mike D

- -----Original Message-----
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, November 21, 1999 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: lens chamois


>Mike wrote:
>
>>OK concerning lens chamois:  I've always been paranoid about using the
same
>>thing twice to clean a lens.>>>>
>
>Hi Mike,
>
>I guess I should give you the "old Ted" cleaning cloth tip! :)
>
>This goes for any of you new folks who have not tried it. We are always
>talking about Leica glass, trust me it's much  tougher than most of you
>give it credit.
>
>Some of you would "blanch white" with heart palpatations, while watching
>Leica technical people clean lens surfaces with good old fashion elbow
>grease, heavy breathing on the glass and vigorously rubbing the cloth round
>and round very quickly.
>
>There is nothing like some "heavy breathing" on the lens and rubbed with a
>swatch of well worn, "well washed" bottom section cut from your "seat made"
>under shorts!:) Nice soft cotten!
>
>Been getting secondary use from well worn under shorts for years and they
>don't cost a penny, as they become a "Re-cycled commodity!" Certainly after
>you have created them into "lens cleaning cloth" due to the hundreds of
>times you have sat on them and ground them into soft lint proof lens
>cleaning cloth.
>
>Why spend money for a chamois when your riding on the best cleaning
>material you can find? Particularly when it's free! :)
>
>Laugh if you like, but it works and instead of throwing those old under
>shorts away, cut the ass part out and make the finest lens cleaning cloth
>you can find. And they are expendable.
>
>ted
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> I know that the Inuit used to keep a single ptarmagan skin in
>>the igloo to clean their dishes all winter, but this is a lens for crying
>>out loud!
>
>
>Ted Grant
>This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
>http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
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