Not necessarily distilled, perhaps only filtered.
Reminds me of some of the bottled waters on sale now, especially the ones
marketed by Coke and Pepsi (e.g. Dasani from Coca Cola).
The bottle contains filtered tap water with minerals added. The same water
they carbonate and use to reconstitute the soft drink syrups. A drink of
tap water for a buck and a quarter a bottle.
FYI, it costs them more the pack and ship than for the contents. And I
would venture a guess that the margin on the cost of production is several
hundred percent.
end
Regards
Bruce Appelbaum
Yorktown Heights, New York
----- Original Message -----
From: <Doggre@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 7:06 PM
Subject: [OM] Lens Cleaning Solutions
> Thanks for all the helpful posts, guys.
>
> I just found that I have some 91% (by volume) isopropyl alcohol (Fred
Meyer
> brand). Tried it. Works fine, leaves no noticable residue. Only other
> ingredient listed is water, which I presume would be distilled?
>
> Went thru all my lenses. Most simply needed a shot of air to blow away
dust.
> Since I just spent $9.99 on a 10 oz/312 ml can of "Dust Off", gave it a
try.
> Gotta hold it upright, give it a blast away from the lens first to clear
any
> liquid from the nozzle, and keep it upright, or the liquid inside will
leave
> a blotch of residue -- just been there, done that on a skylight filter.
> Lesson learned. Follow the directions to the letter.
>
> Only problem I encountered was when I got to the very thin Cokin skylight
on
> my Vivitar 70 -210 zoom, it seemed to have a static charge, and wanted to
> hang on to some of the "lint" particles (I was using toilet tissue, plain,
no
> perfume, lotions, etc. -- honest-to-gosh belching, scratching, beer
swilling
> bachelor here). Maybe one should have a sheet of "Bounce" (clothes drying
> anti-static) handy -- but you couldn't rub it on your hands without
picking
> up something, could you? What to do? Wrist strap, anti-static mat?
Geez,
> how do you do that out in the field?
>
> Gonna try to avoid ever having to touch a lens again except to blow off
dust.
> (I know, famous last words...)
>
> Rich
>
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