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Great, GREAT product!

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:02:47 +0000

I threw my Kodak solution out after I bought the ROR. The Kodak stuff never worked anyway. I may be the only one on this forum that gets a build-up of oily residue on my filters, but when that happens, ROR pulls it off in a jiff, no smears. I rarely use it on my lenses, as they rarely get junk on them, but I do recall one time when a glob of hamburger grease landed squarely on my front element. I carefully dabbed the bulk of it off with a napkin (yeah, I know, a no-no…), misted a bit of ROR on the lens and wiped with a micro-fiber cloth…twice. The result was a sparkling clean lens, no smears, no residue and no scratches! It also works like a champ on my sunglasses. BTW, I still have over half the solution left in the first bottle I bought five years ago!

–Jack Fleisher, www.photo.net

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The best cleaner I’ve ever used is ROR

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:49:53 +0000

The best cleaner I’ve ever used is ROR (Residual Oil Remover, www.ror.net). It simply cleans better and with less effort than any other solvent, yet is non-toxic. A report on ROR’s site about cleaning camera lenses was hard to swallow until I saw the effect of cleaning a brand-new eyepiece and saw the difference in light transmission. Though it wasn’t a TeleVue, the eyepiece came from the factory with dirty lenses that showed an ever-so-slight yellow tint when looking through at a fluorescent light. After cleaning, the eyepiece had a noticeably brighter image without the yellow tint. I presume the eyepiece lenses simply weren’t clean when the eyepiece was assembled. I didn’t take it apart, but I’d bet the inside surfaces weren’t clean either.

– Michael Anderson, Telluride Film Festival

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ROR Stands the Test of Time

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:02:58 +0000

I’m careful with my lenses, but still, they need cleaning periodically. I’ve been using ROR for about six years on all my optics ranging from collector camera lenses to everyday camera lenses, and the eyepieces and objective for my telescope. It’s never damaged a coating. I blow dust off and then brush the lenses with a soft brush, then lightly wipe them with a clean microfiber cleaning cloth that’s been sprayed with ROR, and then finish up with Q tips. They come out looking like new.

– Mark S. Holden, Monroe, CT

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No lens cleaner can even come close to the cleaning quality of ROR

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:05:53 +0000

Several years ago I had the opportunity to try a lens cleaner that made a claim of adding up to two f/stops of light transmission. (The product was called ROR, short for Residual Oil Remover.) That got my attention and I took up the challenge by checking a Mamiya RB 180/4.5 lens with a filter. The lens and filter appeared to be fairly clean. I made an electronic test, then cleaned the lens and filter. I made the test again and was astonished at the results: A full stop and a half gain!

I immediately put it to use as the lens cleaner of choice on my bench. When I first started using it on customers’ lenses and filters, after receiving their repaired lenses they would call to say that I had forgotten to “return the filter” or “didn’t put the front lens element back in.” I explained that everything was indeed intact and that they should look closer — the lenses and filters were so clean that the customers couldn’t see them!

Since then, sales reps have asked me to try their brands of lens cleaners. I put the cleaners through an objective side-by-side test with ROR. The results have always been that no lens cleaner can even come close to the cleaning quality of ROR.

I also use ROR to clean a wide variety of other things, including removal of ink, blood and coffee stains. So far, I have found only one thing that should not be cleaned with ROR and that is film. The emulsion will be destroyed. Like any other cleaning solution, when cleaning an unfamiliar surface, try ROR on an area that is disposable in case there is a problem. To me, ROR is the undisputed King of the Hill of lens cleaners.

– John Petterson, Tech Talk/ Rangefinder magazine

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LAPTOPS/COMPUTER SCREENS

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:07:38 +0000

New laptops come in squeaky-clean packages, with spotless keyboards, dustless LCD screens and smooth trackpad. After years of use, however, you would notice your keyboard getting shadows from all even small food particles wedged in between the rough finish. The LCD screen and trackpad might even be oily because of contact with your fingers. While some laptops retail their like-new surfaces through years of use (like my old ThinkPad and my PowerBook Pismo, which are black), most non-black laptops show signs of use after just a few months. What’s a laptop user to do, then? There are several cleaners out there. Some are water-based. Some are alcohol-based. I’ve tried alcohol, but it can sometimes be abrasive. Glass cleaners can work, too, when diluted. Heck even vinegar solution would do well with sticky trackpads (it’s acidic, after all). Try your local photo hobbyist shop. Maybe they have oil-removing lens cleaners that can help. iBooks and PowerBooks seem to develop a “shadow” of the keyboard on the LCD over time, which won’t come off with window cleaners such as Windex. With my iBook, it was bad enough that using the thing in direct sunlight was sometimes difficult.

On a whim, I recently tried a lens cleaner called ROR (Residual Oil Remover) that I picked up from my local camera store and it took the shadow off completely. My guess is the shadow is really just finger oils from the keyboard or something. – Low End Mac User

ROR removes oil residue on a microscopic level, yet is not abrasive to glass or other surfaces. Better give it a try. Until now, lens cleaners have been for the most part, simply silicone, alcohol

or glycerin based products. Instead of removing the embedded pollution from the pores and surface of a lens, they coated it, thereby defeating the original intention. ROR has redefined the science of lens care by utilizing a formula of natural ingredients that finally removes the counterproductive, ineradicable microscopic oil residues from the surface and pores of glass and plastic.

– J. Angelo Racoma, Tips, Living With

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Superior Product

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:48:01 +0000

When I clean lenses I can tell when they get superlatively clean because all resistance in moving the Q-tip on the glass surface seems to disappear. Looking at the lens obliquely in a bright light also shows zero smudges, streaks, or spots on a very-clean lens. You can achieve this with IPA, but it might take 2 or 3 cleanings to accomplish. ROR is simply a better cleaner.
Are there other cleaners as effective? Possibly. Out of the 20 or thirty different cleaners I’ve used through the years, though, I haven’t seen one. And it’s a lot easier than mixing your own. By the way, I have no commercial interest in ROR/V-Vax–I just think it’s a superior product.

—Don Pensack, www.cloudynights.com

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For a photographer, there are few things as vexing as a dirty lens.

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:48:24 +0000

For a photographer, there are few things as vexing as a dirty lens. I was fortunate to have someone in a camera store recommend that I try ROR several years ago. Why was I asking for a recommendation? Because over and over, previous cleaning fluids just didn’t clean. Imagine my delight when ROR left my lens and filters sparkling! As a Nikon mentor for the Mentor Series Worldwide Photo Treks, I recommend ROR to all my trekkers, and the feedback I get is a resounding echo of my own experience. “I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was able to clean a filter I was preparing to replace. It’s like new after ROR.” It’s the only lens cleaning fluid I’ll trust on the front element of my Nikkor glass. ROR gets an enthusiastic two thumbs up, and my complete confidence.

– Mark Alberhasky, Nikon Pro Photographer, www.imagema.com / www.imagema.us

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