Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I also would like to try it...Steve-------Steve - -------Steve Barbour Phoenix, Arizona........ kididdoc@home.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] ROR vs. ClearSight > Martin, > > There are no secrets in producing a cleaner. A surfactant (soap or other > cleaning agent) is the chemical compound that does the job. The type of > cleaning agent used is the key to how well the job is done. Effectiveness, > lack of residue, toxicity etc. are some of the considerations in choosing > the brand. > ROR, the most popular uses ammonia as its active ingredient. Zeiss uses > alcohol. I have no idea if either of these hold other ingredients. > ClearSight is a concoction of three active ingredients plus other additives > listed in http://www.thegrid.net/joecodi/clearsight.html > > Since you seem to be a skeptic, send me your address and I will send you a > sample. You can decide for yourself if it is as good as many LUGers have > discovered. As for a cloth, if you do not have well used shorts, I'll send > you an official lens cleaning cloth. > > Cheers, > Joe Codispoti > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Howard" <howard.390@osu.edu> > To: "Leica Users Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 3:57 PM > Subject: [Leica] ROR vs. ClearSight > > > > > > So what's the deal with this ClearSight stuff? About a year and a half > ago, > > there was a spate of glowing reports on the LUG about ROR which toted it > as > > the greatest invention Man has seen since the advent of indoor plumbing. > > After soliloqies on its soluability, I eventually bought a bottle, but use > > it more for cleaning DVDs from BlockBuster than lenses (for some strange > > reason, the person who rents the DVD before me always insists on touching > > the recorded side with their greasy fingers). > > > > Now all of a sudden one could -- after reading the LUG recently -- be > > forgiven for thinking that ROR is no more effective than soapy water and > > that ClearSight is the way to go. So, what's the deal? Is ClearSight > > "better"? The same stuff in a different bottle? Or are lens-cleaning > fluid > > manufacturers simply trying to subvert us by using a few corrupt LUGGERs > to > > influence the rest of us? ;) > > > > M. > > > > -- > > Martin Howard | "...key features are the distinctive rear > > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | lighting clusters that make the Maserati > > email: howard.390@osu.edu | 3200GT instantly recognizable to anyone > > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ | overtaken by it." -- Maserati sales lit. > > +-------------------------------------------- > > > > > > >