What do you use to clean your lens/filters?

[Virgo]

Please give me your polls guys. I want to know what's the most popular way of cleaning your gears!

 

[Royce]

Need more options:
* Lens tissue with fluid
* Blower
* Lens pen

Depends on what is being cleaned.

 

[Virgo]

Need more options:
* Lens tissue with fluid
* Blower
* Lens pen

Depends on what is being cleaned.

Lens tissue with fluid = Optical tissue with cleaning liquid
Blower = A MUST! So I'm not mentioning here. Anyway, you can't survive with just a blower!
Lens pen = Lens pens

 

[tingchiyen]

Umm, i just huff on it and wipe it with a lens tissue... :embrass:

 

[Virgo]

Umm, i just huff on it and wipe it with a lens tissue... :embrass:

Think you should get a decent blower at least, to work together with your lens tissue. I was wondering if you can clean your lens without the cleaning liquid though.

 

[freelancer]

No liquid unless lens is badly smudged. I use microfibre cloth after a blower to clean. Amazing piece of cloth - removes everything & cleaner than traditional methods too.

 

[reno77]

Blower and 20cents tobacco paper.

 

[Aton]

Usually just the vapour from my breath then wipe clean with my t-shirt. :bsmilie: But for filter only.

But for lens front element, I use lens tissue and cloth and blower.

 

[Witness]

none on the poll....brush and blower only....

 

[Virgo]

none on the poll....brush and blower only....

What happens if you got fingerprints on your lens/filters? Don't think they can be brush or blown away. ;p

 

[ed9119]

.....I use my shirt + a hot breath on the filter

 

[quekky]

toilet paper ;p

 

[earthlings]

how about just spit and wipe with your sweaty t-shirt. :bsmilie:

 

[Virgo]

how about just spit and wipe with your sweaty t-shirt. :bsmilie:

This is a newbie act, although I know a lot of newbies know how to clean their lens/filters!

 

[madmacs]

so far i never clean my lens elements leh...if have to i guess just use blower.

for filter like tingchiyen say - huff and wipe ;p been huffing and wiping for the past 15 years

 

[tingchiyen]

so far i never clean my lens elements leh...if have to i guess just use blower.

for filter like tingchiyen say - huff and wipe ;p been huffing and wiping for the past 15 years

I concur... Virgo, i've been "huffing & wiping" my filter and lens for the last 10 years or so, unless there's a really big blob of oily stuff i can't get rid of, in which case i use my lens pen. I only resort to lens fluid as a last-chance scenario, as indiscriminate use can actually damage your lens coating. Like you said, blower is a must to get rid of dust, but if it's really gone-case, mangled with fungus etc. i send it in for professional cleaning... i really don't play with fluid cos i don't trust myself with it.

 

[sriram]

I spit on the lens and clean it with toilet paper

 

[Virgo]

I concur... Virgo, i've been "huffing & wiping" my filter and lens for the last 10 years or so, unless there's a really big blob of oily stuff i can't get rid of, in which case i use my lens pen. I only resort to lens fluid as a last-chance scenario, as indiscriminate use can actually damage your lens coating. Like you said, blower is a must to get rid of dust, but if it's really gone-case, mangled with fungus etc. i send it in for professional cleaning... i really don't play with fluid cos i don't trust myself with it.

Thanx tingchiyen. I think most of us didn't use fluid with cleaning cloth/tissue. I'm a bit suprised actually. Thought that most of us would use fluid.

Anyway, the lens element is always protected by a filter. We only clean the filter most of the time. That's an interesting finding for me though.

 

[justarius]

After one disastrous encounter with my hoya filter and lens cleaning fluid which took off half the coating, I now stick to blower brush, lens cloth, and my breath.

 

[whoelse]

cosmatic sponge, no liquid require and cheap. Try it.
gentle enuf for yr face, no scratching of lenses.