It will make you sleepy and blow you up too. At work (hospital lab)
we use a lens cleaner from Scientific Products that I have used on
microscope lenses, binoculars and camera lenses (Zuiko, D-Zuiko and my
old Rollei 35). It works well and has caused no visible damage. Its
listed ingredients are water, acetic acid, isopropyl alcohol and
acetone. So it would seem there is a wide range of compounds and pH
ranges that can be used safely on photographic equipment.
Eyeglasses are a different matter entirely. The UV, anti-glare
coatings are very sensitive to ammonia compounds (made that mistake
once), so forget about Windex there. I have a commercial eyeglass
cleaner that is safe but doesn't clean worth a damn. Warm water and
bar soap is fine.
Charlie
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Don't know about lenses, but virtually all glass cleaners are ammonia based.
> Try the automotive aisle, and there will be glass cleaners with other
> formulations, with other solvents. One I have used on not-lens glass was
> made by a company named Stoner. Don't know why I remembered that.
>
> When I worked for the airplane factory, I sometimes filled in for the guy
> that ran the process camera (boring work). There was a special glass cleaner
> that had an ether base. Worked great, and it wasn't what made me sleepy on
> that job.
>
> Bill Pearce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JOHN DUGGAN
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:42 AM
> To: Olympus mailing list
> Subject: [OM] OM Windex
>
> Hi all,
> This really could be best answered by John Hermanson (don't have
> his e-mail address to hand)
> I recall he advocates using Windex? to clean camera lenses. As we are at
> present in the States I went into a local Safeways to be confronted with
> Windex with ammonia,Windex with fragrance, Windex surface cleaner.......you
> get the indea.
> What do I need. I am assuming I avoid fragrance and Amonia products like the
> plague. thanks in advance .
>
> Regards
> John Duggan,
> Wales, UK
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