Cleaning Cameras

by Philip Greenspun

Remember that your camera is just a tool. Don’t pamper it. You can always buy a new one. If you leave your camera in a closet, it will never get dirty or broken, but you won’t have too many great photographs to show for yourself. Many of the best photographs can only be taken under conditions that will render your equipment wet and/or filthy. That’s life.

The photo at right was the result of spending six hours at the bottom of a canyon in the Navajo Nation. For the entire six hours, sand blew down from the top of the canyon and into a $20,000 Rollei 6008 system. Was there a sickening grinding sound when I focussed my $3000 50mm lens for the next few months? Yes. Did I have to send the camera back to Rollei USA to be cleaned? Yes. Did the camera get stolen in Filthadelphia a couple of years later? Yes. So it really didn’t make sense to obsess over the camera, did it? We can still enjoy this picture even if that 6008 has disappeared. If the camera had been pampered, it would just be in that much better shape for the crook who is using it now.

Lenses

Basic lens cleaning tools are a blower, a microfiber cloth, and lens cleaning fluid (my favorite: Zeiss). Try to blast dust off the lens with the blower or canned air. Finger prints can be removed with a circular wipe of the new miracle micro fiber cloth (my favorite brand is Pentax because it is nice and thick; about $6). Persistent dirt should be removed with lens cleaning fluid, of which the safest is probably Kodak. Always drip the fluid onto the cloth and then wipe the lens; never put fluid directly onto a lens.

Even if your lenses don’t look dirty, every few months you should give exposed surfaces a cleaning withResidual Oil Remover (ROR). Even if you were able to protect your optics from all environmental sources of filth, there would still be crud condensing on your optics as camera bag plastics outgas. It is tough to verify ROR’s claims, but the optics do look visibly clearer after an ROR treatment and the amazing price won’t kill you.

If you are going to use an expensive lens in a dusty or wet environment and don’t want to obsess over your equipment, keep a B+W UV filter on the lens and count on replacing the filter every year or two.

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Professional photographers were among the first audience to embrace ROR. Now that the general population is equipped with cell phones with multi-touch tablets and cameras built into them, ROR has a whole new audience of consumers in need of its product.

Laboratories and hospitals have used ROR for decades because ROR cleans lenses, objectives and other optical surfaces better than any other solution available. Obviously, scientific and clinical laboratory testing requires hygienically clean lenses for accuracy as blurred vision can change whole diagnoses and findings. When human lives are at stake, there is no room for compromise.

High end optical manufacturers and eyeglass boutiques have traditionally included a sample of lens cleaners with purchase. It’s a retailer’s way of reinforcing the importance of protecting an eyewear investment for the long-haul. ROR is the perfect sample for your optical clients.

Top-of-the-line flat screen TVs and computer monitors do not respond well to cleaning performed with traditional glass cleaners. Eliminate streaks and fingerprints and avoid scratches that can permanently damage the flat screen. Increase your enjoyment of your cable, movie and TV viewing using ROR. Improve your productivity working on your computer using ROR to clean it weekly.

Don’t Take Our Word For It? Just Ask The Pro’s….

“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, Mentor Series Worldwide Photo Treks

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Barnes & Nobel will be unveiling their new “Nook” eReader.

With the smashing success of their first generation of eReaders, it will be exciting to see what new developments they have come up with.

New or Not, your Nook screen is getting dirty!!!!

Let ROR help wipe away your smudges and smears to keep those pages clear and easy to read.

—Don Pensack, www.cloudynights.com