Re: [Leica] ROR vs. ClearSight

["Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>]

Hello Joe:

Please send me a sample.

Roland Smith
4235 Edge Drive
Oakland, CA 94602

Thank you,
Roland
roland@dnai.com
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:32 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.
> >
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