p.4 #4 · How do you clean your front lens element?
No filters, and I just use a microfibre cloth for dust. And keep the lens cap on when not in use.
For annoying bits that get stuck at the edges, particularly on lens rear elements, I keep my used sensor swabs for that (and other things). They pick out those awkward specks very efficiently and totally cure the OCD
p.4 #5 · How do you clean your front lens element?
DavidBM wrote:
I would be surprised is the decagon had anything to do with the filter. Are you sure it wouldn’t have been there without the filter? The lox 21 does sometime produce ten sided aperture images without a filter being on.
The decagon shape is from the aperture blades. But the aperture blades don't generate reflections, they only limit their extend.