Ammonia is in most lens cleaners, and a good nature photographer should
never be without it, since ammonia is great for alleviating the itch from bug
bites. Try it on your next mosquito bite. You can't do that with Zippo....
Wayne
At 02:01 PM 5/7/2004, Walt amused:
>I phrased that poorly. I should have said, I use Zippo lighter fluid
>(naphtha) and denatured alcohol for lots of cleaning chores, but not naphtha
>-- heaven forbid -- for lens cleaning, etc., etc. Please note the correction
>by the addition of the words "not naphtha" into the reference to lens
>cleaning. I sometimes use denatured alcohol for cleaning lenses, never
>naphtha, but I generally prefer Windex.
>
>Carefully conducted and extensively documented studies and examinations using
>a nuclear magnetic resonnansitic ultralinear spectrosonographic plasmatic crud
>detector of surfaces cleaned with any petrolieum distillate, such as naphtha,
>frequently reveal them to be coated with an oily petrolitical obfuscational
>film (not to be confused with Kodachrome). It, of course, is easily removed
>through the gentle application of the magic blue liquid known as Windex.
>
>Walt, who will not be receiving e-mails the rest of the day.
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