Windex is the preferred lens cleaner by camera repair technician/author
Thomas Tomosy... but generally applied more sparingly. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
> Friday evening I was prepping my gear for a senior portrait shoot the next
> morning when I grabbed my polarizer in case I needed to kill off some lumens
> for DoF purposes. (good call)
>
> Anyway, my issue with filters is that they get so gunky. This one was no
> exception. It was hazy, streaked and generally just yucky. So I took a lens
> tissue to it and breathed on it a few times. Nada. Well, Karen volunteers
> to grab cleaning fluid. As most of the household wears corrective lenses of
> one form or another, I was prepared for a little bottle of cleaning fluid.
>
> But no......
>
> Before I realized it (I was turned looking the other direction while holding
> onto the filter) she proceeded to drown the poor filter with at least three
> shots of "Windex" window cleaner. It was dripping the green stuff and
> flowing down my arm. It took me a half dozen sheets of tissue to get it all
> absorbed and cleaned up, but man-alive, that filter is better than new!
> Amazing!
>
> She asked if there was anything else needing cleaning, which I answered very
> quickly "NO!!!!!!"
>
> AG
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