OK, SO I AM OLD

[Tusker]

Since I will be taking delivery of my new D 700 tomorrow, , I thought I better clean a couple of my older lenses from the F2A days. Guess what-- NO WHERE - could I find some lens paper and cleaner. I finally went to RITZ, which I stay out of at almost ALL cost. The kid behind the counter just looked at me. No to be found. Use a 'MICROFIBER CLOTH' he said. So you just wipe dirt around your lens these days? Are you kidding me? What do you experts use??

[Edd]

Had the same advice over here when we bought our 40D.

I usedc to use like a tissue paper and some fluid in a bottle to clean the lens on our camcorder but we have just got a couple of cloths now.

Not to sure what you do when they look a little grubby but I think you just wash them.

Ed

[bob_r]

I do carry a microfibre cloth and cleaning solution, but most of my cleaning is done with a lens pen. I don't remember the brand, but all the stores carry them. Just Google it and you'll get close to a million choices.

[Tusker]

Well I have a lens pen, and some of the cloth, but after 35 years, and I smoked in those days, I just figured something better and more through was in order. I saw a package of 'KODAK' paper like I have 'somewhere' on e-bay-- $10.00? now it is a collectors item.

[Bonish Photo]

I still have two of those old packages of Kodak Lens tissue in one of my camera bags. I'll have to dig it out and snap a picture of it to show some of the younger photographers on here what we used to use before Lens Pens and Microfiber

By the way, that is what I use now and is why I still have two old packages of it lying around

[MCS]

B&H Photo carries Zeiss lens cleaning fluid in small spray bottles specially designed for multi-coated lenses. It's even better than the old Kodak lens cleaning fluid. They also carry Tiffen lens cleaning paper in small 50 sheet packets like the old Kodak lens cleaning paper. I'd say it is as good or better than the Kodak. Yes, you still can get that stuff!

[peter nap]

Yeah...I'm old too!

I have a lens pen and Microfiber and lens tissue.

You can get it at most eyeglass places. Walmart optometry has Zeiss.

DO NOT use the microfiber on plastic. I had (Note the syntax) UV filter that I thought was glass. I cleaned it and now I have a frosted Ritz UV Filter.

[Tusker]

Yeah...I'm old too!

I have a lens pen and Microfiber and lens tissue.

You can get it at most eyeglass places. Walmart optometry has Zeiss.

DO NOT use the microfiber on plastic. I had (Note the syntax) UV filter that I thought was glass. I cleaned it and now I have a frosted Ritz UV Filter.

Well, I don't have any plastic filters, far as I know. I thought about lens tissues, but was unsure of the quality??? THANKS!!

[Tusker]

Yeah...I'm old too!

I have a lens pen and Microfiber and lens tissue.

You can get it at most eyeglass places. Walmart optometry has Zeiss.

DO NOT use the microfiber on plastic. I had (Note the syntax) UV filter that I thought was glass. I cleaned it and now I have a frosted Ritz UV Filter.

Well, I don't have any plastic filters, far as I know. I thought about lens tissues, but was unsure of the quality??? THANKS!!

OK- Maybe I have missed something here???? You say don't use microfiber on plastic? BUT-- most, if not ALL eyeglasses are plastic these days?? What have I missed in this? THANKS!!!

[peter nap]

Yeah...I'm old too!

I have a lens pen and Microfiber and lens tissue.

You can get it at most eyeglass places. Walmart optometry has Zeiss.

DO NOT use the microfiber on plastic. I had (Note the syntax) UV filter that I thought was glass. I cleaned it and now I have a frosted Ritz UV Filter.

Well, I don't have any plastic filters, far as I know. I thought about lens tissues, but was unsure of the quality??? THANKS!!

OK- Maybe I have missed something here???? You say don't use microfiber on plastic? BUT-- most, if not ALL eyeglasses are plastic these days?? What have I missed in this? THANKS!!!

Got me!
I won't use it on anything anymore. Obviously, I can;t tell plastic from glass.
The tissues I buy are NOT microfiber.

I haven't done this but have seen the hatchet job they do on dusty focus screens.

[Photography~girl~]

Soooo...we've got like a billion little glass(like, eye glass) wipe thingymerjigs.(don't you like my very technical wording?) Are those micro fiber???
Mom let me "steal" one to keep in my camera bag...i used it once to clean my UV filter and lens, didn't seem to do anything to it, but i'd reallllly dis-like after a another cleaning having my lense be scratched.

[Tusker]

Ok- I tried the 'Micro-Fiber' thing and it worked to a point. There were still a couple spots on the filter that refused to come off. While at the grocery store the other day, after checking out, I went to to customer service counter where you have to go these days to buy ALL tobacco products. I ask the kid behind the counter if they still sold cigarette papers? The look on his face was priceless. Yep they had them. I got a couple packs and left with my 'ZIG-ZAG prize. Now they are 'gummed' one one edge, but I worked around that. Use them in the old way, and the spots were GONE!! I finished up with a wipe of the cloth, and presto, good as new of 35 years ago. I have instructions from my wife not to talk about my 'stash' These will do in a pinch.