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Archive 2020How do you clean your front lens element?
p.4 #2How do you clean your front lens element?
nhsonyshooter wrote:
Shirt!
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Shirt!
Those microfiber shirts must feel nice.
Apr 08, 2023 at 11:55 PM
p.4 #3How do you clean your front lens element?
I don't. I have a UV filter for every lens I own 
Apr 09, 2023 at 12:31 AM
p.4 #4How 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
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
Apr 09, 2023 at 05:34 AM
p.4 #5How do you clean your front lens element?
DavidBM wrote:
This is the absolute worst daylight ghosting I could produce with my B+W mrc nano uv filter, the decagon shaped ghost is almost never visible. This is a pretty abnormal photo in the sense that before cropping the sun was very near the center of the frame. (the bottom blob is the Loxia lens's own ghost)
https://i.imgur.com/cNg6sbh.jpg
Loxia21 @F13 with B+W mrc nano UV filterI 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.
Sinasina wrote
I despise cleaning my Loxia lenses and it's so easy to leave a fingerprint on those protruding front elements. My solution is to use a relatively good UV filter & just take it off for night time photography. UV filter ghosting is a very predictable endeavor, during the day my B+W filter doesn't have a ghosting problem in almost any situation. At night if you have strong leds or floodlights in the central area of the frame all hell will break loose though, but this is mostly true for all filters, since they are parallel with the sensor & 0% reflection is an unobtainable goal.This is the absolute worst daylight ghosting I could produce with my B+W mrc nano uv filter, the decagon shaped ghost is almost never visible. This is a pretty abnormal photo in the sense that before cropping the sun was very near the center of the frame. (the bottom blob is the Loxia lens's own ghost)
https://i.imgur.com/cNg6sbh.jpg
Loxia21 @F13 with B+W mrc nano UV filter
The decagon shape is from the aperture blades. But the aperture blades don't generate reflections, they only limit their extend.
Apr 09, 2023 at 07:04 AM
p.4 #6How do you clean your front lens element?
I use a blower 99% of the time, when somethings stuck then I use distilled water and Q-tips.
Apr 11, 2023 at 09:53 AM
p.4 #7How do you clean your front lens element?
psp2000 wrote:
I don't. I have a UV filter for every lens I own
Yep, me, too. Then I blow on it with my breath and wipe it with my t-shirt if necessary.
I don't. I have a UV filter for every lens I own
Yep, me, too. Then I blow on it with my breath and wipe it with my t-shirt if necessary.
Apr 13, 2023 at 05:01 PM
p.4 #8How do you clean your front lens element?
Yup..... coffee breath and the end of my t shirt
Apr 13, 2023 at 07:27 PM