Walt,
I can not agree more other than the use of cotton, and spit. Your spit
contains organisms, do you want them growing on your lens. If I am going
to bother to clean, I want it clean, and cotton always leaves one or two
peices behind, and that pisses me off! I have left stuff I could see on
lenses forever. The only thing I always take off is figerprints. The
oils from you skin can do some nasty thing to coatings of lenses. I
remember one particularly bad one where after repeated cleaning, the
fingerprint was still there, and the coating was not. This is an extreme
case, where I am pretty sure the lens sat like that for twenty years
before the guy pulled it out of the closet to sell it to me.
John
Walt Wayman wrote:
>
> Just remember, like more houseplants are killed by too much watering than
> by neglect, more lenses are damaged by too much over-zealous cleaning than
> by just about any other cause.
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