Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can use paper toweling or Kleenex (not the ones treated with mineral oil, like Puffs) as long as you do what you say below, i.e., tear them and used the frayed end like a mop, with little or no pressure on the lens). My major professor in grad school taught me the art of cleaning lenses, and it has served me well. Last year, I bought his 50-year-old Summarit 50/1.5 LTM. By the way, it was filled with fungus and haze, but had no cleaning marks of any kind on it. Jeffery At 06:29 AM 7/10/02, you wrote: >I use ClearSight on a $7,000 underwater video lens that comes into >direct contact with sea water and droplets of sea water often dry onto >the lens before I am able to use distilled water to flush the salt water >off the lens. In many places such as Bonaire, there is no distilled >water on the shelf. So far, ClearSight has worked perfectly. > >I take one sheet of paper toweling, fold it many times and then tear off >the end which makes a nice "brush" and then ClearSight is liberally >applied to the lens, the "brush" is used to swab the lens. Then the used >part of the 'brush" is torn off to expose a new "brush" tip, ClearSight >is applied again and swabbed. This cycle is repeated at least 3 times. > >I have not tried it on my Leica lenses as I have not used them since I >purchased ClearSight. > >Don R. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "BrutuS" <brutus@mda.ca> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:03 AM >Subject: [Leica] Re: lens cleaning... > > > > >Then hot breath on the glass, take undershort cleaning cloth and in >circular > > >motion wipe off any other stuff. > > > > Works often, but "ClearSight" will handle cases where simple moisture >(not > > to mention lens pens, Kodak fluid, specialty cloth, etc) is not enough > > (even light "fungus" and glue drops). Also cleans easy cases, worth >its > > price and worth trying. > > > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see >http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html