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Best front element cleaning techniques?

Started Apr 21, 2014 | Questions thread
Sports Shooter
Sports Shooter Senior Member • Posts: 1,648
Re: Best front element cleaning techniques?

Touchstone Steve wrote:

Thanks! I looked on the Canon site but the US one :P. I used blower for dust, a microfiber cloth for the stuff that does not blow off but stayed way from liquid cleaners. I see from the Canon video a cleaner recommendation I can use.

If you have salt deposits on the lens I wouldn't use a cloth in case that the blower did not blow them off completely. Salt usualy sticks. Imagine that a small tiny granule is still there and while you are moving the microfiber cloth around the glass the granule gently scratches the sufrace!!

I would use a liquid cleaner with a lint free wipe like a peckcap and very gently wipe of the surface. This should remove any small granules of salt remaining on the lens optic.

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