Lens cleanliness is very important and worth maintaining if you want to get really high quality and sharp photos from your camera. Even if you shoot with a very expensive lens, it will not perform well if the lens is dirty, covered with dust, fingerprints, splashes of liquids and dried condensation. Dried water droplets on the lens can cause serious deterioration in the quality of future images and must be cleaned up in time. There are many ways to get rid of lens stains, dust, and grease.
Instructions
Step 1
Plain dry dust can be removed from the lens with a blast of air, but the blast should be blown out of a clean, dry syringe, not out of your mouth. By blowing dust off the lens, you risk contaminating it even more with droplets of saliva. Also, do not clean the dust from the lens with your finger. Fingerprints are much more difficult to remove than plain dust.
Step 2
Do not use cleaning cloths to clean the lenses - they can cover the lens glass with a net of tiny scratches. You can use a special soft brush, which needs to gently and without pressure to clean the lens, since otherwise it can also leave scratches on it, or specialized napkins for cleaning photographic optics. Such napkins are produced by companies that produce photographic equipment.
Step 3
If liquid gets on your lens, do not wait for it to dry, especially if it is not water but some oil, juice or alcohol that has spilled on the glass. Gently wipe off drops with a clean cotton swab without pressing on the glass and directing the cotton swab from the center to the edges of the lens. To remove dried liquid droplets, breathe on the lens to fog up and immediately wipe the lens with a dry cotton swab.
Step 4
Particularly stubborn liquid stains can be removed with ordinary alcohol. Lightly moisten one cotton swab with rubbing alcohol and leave the other dry. Gently wipe the lens with a damp cotton swab, so that the alcohol residue on the glass instantly evaporates, and then breathe on the lens again and wipe it with a dry cotton swab. A stick moistened with alcohol is good for cleaning greasy spots on the lens.
Step 5
When cleaning the lens from oily stains, you may have to repeat the alcohol cleaning several times until the lens is clean again.
Step 6
Alcohol cleaning is only suitable for glass lenses. If you have a simple camera with a plastic lens, you cannot use solvents. Try to prevent contamination of the lens while using the camera.
