How do you clean a lens?

[Mitchell]

I was wondering how you clean a lens other than wiping the front. do you like take a air blower and blow in the end of the lens?..

[Bonish Photo]

Before I ever wipe the front or back of a lens, I always use a Rocket Blower and give it a few good puffs of air to dislodge anything that might be on the glass itself.

You can find these are most camera stores for under $10 and they are small enough to fit in any camera bag. No matter which bag I'm carrying, I always throw in my Rocket Blowe and my LensPen. I try to never use compressed air as I've heard the horror stories of the liquid coming out on a lens and ruining it when it freezes it.

Once I blow the glass off, I carry a little soft lens cloth around in the bag also, and I wipe any fingerprints or smudges off with that. If there is a real stubborn smudge on there, I have some liquid lens solution on there, but never spary it right on the lens itself. Always on the tissue, then wipe it on the glass.

[Mitchell]

WOW thanks that helped alot. But what do you do if there is dust in the lens do you just use a blower?

[Bonish Photo]

If you have actual debris inside your lens, then you need to send it back to the manufacturer to be taken apart and cleaned.

I just had Canon repair a lens of mine that had come loose after 4 years of abuse, and asked them to clean the inside of the lens due to some small hairs I could see in there. They never affected the images, but it was more of a mental thing that I hated seeing.

I dont know any other way to clean anything that is INSIDE the lens itself?

[Mitchell]

ok..