Admit It To Yourself
Come on. Admit it. Stop kidding yourself.
Take out that lens cleaning cloth that you have carefully folded in the side pocket of your camera bag a look at it. What colour is it? Should it be sticky? Is that brown smear chocolate or something worse?
Now wipe it over your $ 3200 lens and go out on your $ 20,000 holiday and see what happens. Mind you, you won't see much, nor will the lens.
Before you go, stop in at Camera Electronic and get yourself a 12-pack of Hoodman Lens Cleanse sachets. Each one contains a enzyme-activated wet towelette that dissolves and lifts the fingerprints and grime from the front of your lenses and a soft dry wiper to finish it off. It will not harm delicate lens coatings and it won't poison you or the environment.
Best of all, it has the Ernest seal of approval - he has shown the staff here that this cleaning system is by far the safest and clearest way of lens maintenance. The moist wipe has enough material to treat several lenses and the dry wipe leaves the surfaces actually feeling smooth as silk.
Note for those people who shoot wide angle lenses - particularly the wider DX lenses like 9, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 mm. If you routinely use a UV filter in front of your lens and shoot brightly coloured or lit subjects in front of a dark backdrop - say belly dancers in front of a black curtain - you can experience some of the most excruciating light spots on that dark field if there is any particulate matter sitting on the filter. The lenses are just that good at focussing on close objects when they are at wide settings and small apertures. It is like a festival of polka dots. Be wise - clean that filter scrupulously before you flash, or you'll be spotting your files until 3:00 AM!
12-pack of Hoodman Lens Cleanse - $ 24.95 and it is a good investment in getting to bed at a reasonable time.
Take out that lens cleaning cloth that you have carefully folded in the side pocket of your camera bag a look at it. What colour is it? Should it be sticky? Is that brown smear chocolate or something worse?
Now wipe it over your $ 3200 lens and go out on your $ 20,000 holiday and see what happens. Mind you, you won't see much, nor will the lens.
Before you go, stop in at Camera Electronic and get yourself a 12-pack of Hoodman Lens Cleanse sachets. Each one contains a enzyme-activated wet towelette that dissolves and lifts the fingerprints and grime from the front of your lenses and a soft dry wiper to finish it off. It will not harm delicate lens coatings and it won't poison you or the environment.
Best of all, it has the Ernest seal of approval - he has shown the staff here that this cleaning system is by far the safest and clearest way of lens maintenance. The moist wipe has enough material to treat several lenses and the dry wipe leaves the surfaces actually feeling smooth as silk.
Note for those people who shoot wide angle lenses - particularly the wider DX lenses like 9, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 mm. If you routinely use a UV filter in front of your lens and shoot brightly coloured or lit subjects in front of a dark backdrop - say belly dancers in front of a black curtain - you can experience some of the most excruciating light spots on that dark field if there is any particulate matter sitting on the filter. The lenses are just that good at focussing on close objects when they are at wide settings and small apertures. It is like a festival of polka dots. Be wise - clean that filter scrupulously before you flash, or you'll be spotting your files until 3:00 AM!
12-pack of Hoodman Lens Cleanse - $ 24.95 and it is a good investment in getting to bed at a reasonable time.
Labels: Hoodman
posted by Unknown at
4:12 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home