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Best front element cleaning techniques?

Started Apr 21, 2014 | Questions thread
brightcolours Forum Pro • Posts: 15,885
Nothing complex about cleaning lens elements

Touchstone Steve wrote:

I have a 24-70L that I got a few specks of salt water spray on it. Not so bad it will affect images so much but never the less if there is a good way of cleaning the lens with out damaging the coating this would be a big plus.
PLEASE, this is not a filter conversation. There are thousands of filter conversations and they don't help those trying to understand the +/- issues and challenges in cleaning front or back elements.
What is the best technique for cleaning a front element?

Take a soft lens brush and brush dust/whatever else gently off.

Then take a microfiber lens cleaning cloth and spray a little bit of lens cleaning fluid on it. Gently clean the lens in  rotating motion. If you like, you can wipe the lens after that with a dry part of the lens cleaning cloth. Done.

You have to really try hard to damage lens coatings, they are metals vaporized onto the glass under high temperatures, and they are pretty tough.

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