I knew someone back in the 80s who used her saliva to wet her contact
lenses. OUCH, think much?
For camera lenses I don't recommend it either.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John and Julie Ockman" <jrockman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Lens cleaning
> Walt,
> I can not agree more other than the use of cotton, and spit. Your spit
> contains organisms, do you want them growing on your lens. If I am going
> to bother to clean, I want it clean, and cotton always leaves one or two
> peices behind, and that pisses me off! I have left stuff I could see on
> lenses forever. The only thing I always take off is figerprints. The
> oils from you skin can do some nasty thing to coatings of lenses. I
> remember one particularly bad one where after repeated cleaning, the
> fingerprint was still there, and the coating was not. This is an extreme
> case, where I am pretty sure the lens sat like that for twenty years
> before the guy pulled it out of the closet to sell it to me.
> John
>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
> >
> > Just remember, like more houseplants are killed by too much watering
than
> > by neglect, more lenses are damaged by too much over-zealous cleaning
than
> > by just about any other cause.
>
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