The Weekly Cleaning Day
on March 04, 2019
Do you have a weekly cleaning day at your house? When you change the sheets, do the laundry, and scrub the floors? Is it a hard day? Down on the knees, hauling heavy baskets, tucking, folding, and scrubbing? Isn't it a real pain?
Well, consider the alternatives; dirty sheets, dirty clothes, and sticky floors...The pain has a gain.
Same thing with your optical surfaces. If you have not looked lately at the front element of the lenses you earn a living with - or that you practise your art with...go and look. Those spots of dust, chilli, dog hair, and unidentified objects are sitting on thousands of dollars worth of delicate glass. They will sit there - degrading your images - until you make them go away.
Those of you that have a can of Dust-Off can start with that, Then the Giotto camel-hair brush. Then the light spray of cleaning solution. Then the microfibre cloth. Then you can do it all over again on the next glass surface. You'll be done by midnight.
The B&W cleaning spray is not a product for your sensor. It is for the optic surfaces, and only in conjunction with careful manipulation - but it has the ability to soften and lift grease and other contaminants. It is safe - within the limits of sensible handling - for computer screens, binoculars, camera lenses, spectacles, filters. etc.
You might be tempted to cheap out on a lot of things - dishwashing detergent and tea towels instead of optical cleaners and microfibre - but you cannot recover from the degradation of an expensive lens coating by any means except replacement.
Don't risk it. Use B+W.
