Cleaning Gear

[Larky]

Hi all.

Cleaning gear, cloths, fluids, air blowers. What do you all use, and why?

I've tried many a cloth, compressed and non-compressed air, never used any fluids though. I am yet to find a cloth that does a really good job on the lens, they smear or create static and it's get's dustier than it was.

So, what do you all use?

A.

 

[Steve Bellayr]

ROR Mist & Pentax cleaning cloth. Once the lens is clean a filter is placed over it. I have not had problems cleaning the filters.

 

[KoNickon]

Get a fluid made for cleaning coated optics and use it with a microfiber cloth. But first, use a brush to get the dust off. You need to use fluid since it loosens the grime -- you don't want to cause cleaning marks by bearing down too hard with a dry cloth.

 

[migtex]

brush , air, microfibre cloth and ether!
Done! Oh and some klenex (the soft one) sometimes as well!

 

[cosmonot]

Brush, or bunched up dry tissue to brush dust off.

Then,

ROR, Kodak lens fluid (lasts forever...), on a Kodak lens tissue, PEC pad, or Kimwipe.

Never really liked microfiber, or reusing something more than once after it's picked up any gunk off the surface of a lens.

 

[sepiareverb]

I clean the bodies with a small flat watercolor brush, and have a goats hair 'mop' brush for dusty lenses. In the field I use a microfiber cloth. I like the Leica branded ones as they are white and easiest to see the dirty spots on.

Zeiss makes a wet wipe in a packet that is very nice for salt spray.

I'd like to find a US source for that miracle fluid cleaner that you paint on the lens and then peel off.

 

[Peter_Jones]

Cleaning fluid & microfibre cloth (wash it out if it gets mucky) and not much pressure.