Anyone use Q-tips to clean lens?
Mar 17, 2015 21:55:05 #
Your thoughts or opinions on using Q-tips to clean lenses.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Mar 17, 2015 21:57:28 #
Earworms wrote:
Your thoughts or opinions on using Q-tips to clean lenses.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Too much lint.;)pith
Mar 17, 2015 22:00:09 #
Mar 17, 2015 22:03:51 #
pith wrote:
Too much lint.;)pith
What little lint there may be can easily be blown away.
Mar 17, 2015 22:13:28 #
I guess I don't understand why you would want to use something as tiny as a Q-tip to clean a lens. It sounds entirely to labor intensive. My advise is get a true microfiber cloth, from a company like Toray, or use the ol'e time tested lens tissue, with Formula MC. ;) pith
Mar 17, 2015 22:18:12 #
Earworms wrote:
What little lint there may be is can easily be blown away.
i buy microfiber towels, cut them up in 2" squares, toss them in a sandwitch bag in he camera bag.
Use them once and throw them away.
Mar 17, 2015 23:19:07 #
Mar 17, 2015 23:22:33 #
Never used a Q-tip but used my T-shirt a lot. That works pretty good! ;-)
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Mar 17, 2015 23:34:20 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Never used a Q-tip but used my T-shirt a lot. That works pretty good! ;-)
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Nothing like a little bit of perspiration and or anti perspirant, dead skin flakes and chest hair to make your lenses spiffy! Not to mention the residues that came from the washing machine and clothes dryer. Detergents and fabric softeners and the lint from the other articles of clothing.
Mar 17, 2015 23:37:35 #
Rongnongno wrote:
No. Beside the lint q-tips are abrasive.
I doubt it.
Mar 17, 2015 23:46:02 #
Q-tips or T-shirt ..... good only if you don't care about the investment in your lenses. While YMMV, personally I would never subject my lenses to a Q-tip or T-shirt (or any shirt for that matter).
Mar 17, 2015 23:52:39 #
Mar 18, 2015 00:28:17 #
Earworms wrote:
What little lint there may be can easily be blown away.
Earworms wrote:
Nothing like a little bit of perspiration and or anti perspirant, dead skin flakes and chest hair to make your lenses spiffy! Not to mention the residues that came from the washing machine and clothes dryer. Detergents and fabric softeners and the lint from the other articles of clothing.
Earworms wrote:
I doubt it.
Whassa deal here? You asked for opinions, then rebut every suggestion? Your mind's apparently made up, so just keep on doing what youre doing. Good luck with that but why did you bother to ask?
Mar 18, 2015 00:55:10 #
OddJobber wrote:
Whassa deal here? You asked for opinions, then rebut every suggestion? Your mind's apparently made up, so just keep on doing what youre doing. Good luck with that but why did you bother to ask?
I generally prefer factual information. Back it up with some facts. You have a website with cotton tip analysis that indicates conclusively that cotton swabs are abrasive? Of course they are, that is why the Medical establishment uses cotton swabs in your ears and eyes, they want to scratch your cornea and eardrum.
Mar 18, 2015 01:03:41 #
Sorry, Dude, but the burden's on you. Where's your empirical evidence that cotton swabs are the best way to go? :roll:
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