How to clean your camera lenses (and how not to do it)

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 15:15 by Michelle Peeters | 10,528 views | 1 comment

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

The comic (or is it sadistic ...) mind at DPReview TV has put together a guide to cleaning lenses that is somehow informative, funny and extremely painful to watch.

In classic DPRTV style, Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake recently got their hands on a number of broken lenses and used them to show the best and worst ways to clean the front of your lens.

And although the video even features lenses being attacked with a Dremel, Niccolls and Drake still manage to cover some important points.

The main tips are:

The different types of microfibre cloths and cleaning solutions available;
Why you should never use a cloth or wipe when there is dirt or sand on the element;
The dangers of older formulations of ROR optical lens cleaner;
What cleaning does to lens coatings in the long term;
And more…

Watch the full video above to dive into each of these points in more detail, including a fun informative interlude about three-quarters of the way through the video. Just be prepared for the shocking effect, there is something physically painful about watching the front element of a lens being destroyed, even if it is already broken...

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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Chris wrote on Tuesday 16 June 2020 at 14:56 | reply
Pleasant explanation.

Translated from Dutch.

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