Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/03

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Subject: [Leica] lens cloth good enough for leica lenses?
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 20:12:24 -0400
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Leica makes (or sells with their name on it) a micro-fiber lens cleaning
cloth that tucks into a tiny bag and hooks to your camera strap or keychain.
 I've never paid for one.  I've always gotten them at Leica seminars or
Leica days.  They are well worth looking for, though.

Tina

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu> 
wrote:

> Hey folks,
>  I've noticed that cotton t-shirts are kind of okay for cleaning Nikon
> lenses but dress shirts and neckties are TERRIBLE. As it's become trendy 
> for
> slackers like me to dress fancy I find my eyeglasses and Leitz glass so
> smudgy it's like looking through a consumer grade Canon zoom lens, which
> gives me headaches and makes me not want to take photos. I have some lens
> cloths, but I'm looking for some sort of solution that attaches to a camera
> strap or a keychain or something (possibly retracting into some sort of
> housing to keep clean?) and that I can get in quantities so I can attach 
> one
> to each of my camera bags and my Domke vest and my Tilly hat. Does anybody
> have any Way Cool recommendations? (And please do not say "Ted's 
> Underwear",
> I've looked into it and the markup from Hermes is prohibitive - I could 
> just
> buy new lenses for what they want for a pair of his cast-off boxers.)
>
> Kyle
>
> --
> www.kylecassidy.com
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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