Re: [OM] Lens cleaning

[Robert T McFetridge]

Spit's not great for lenses but contacts are another thing. I 
wouldn't use someone else's spit but ones own is quite healthy and 
reasonable.
> 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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> >  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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