How to Clean A Camera Lens

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Lynn November 24, 2007 at 2:43 pm: This is a good way to clean the little lens on a small digital camera, webcam, laptop cam or phone camera. Wet a q-tip with the same solution you use to clean eyeglasses and clean the recessed lens with it. Make sure you swipe the q-tip over the ridges that surround the lens too, they collect a lot of dust.
Lynn November 24, 2007 at 4:04 pm: If you have a really good camera and you want to take care of it, get a lens cleaning kit. They don’t cost very much. The kit will have a soft little brush for brushing away dirt or sand, a no-scratch no-fuzz lens cleaning cloth, and special lens cleaning fluid. Be sure you follow the directions that come with your camera, or at least the ones that come with the kit.
Lynn November 24, 2007 at 4:04 pm: You can get dirt and other dry particles off a lens or out of a camera by using a can of compressed air, the kind you use to clean computers and keyboards with.
Lynn November 24, 2007 at 4:05 pm: Use a lens cap any time you’re not using the camera, and use a filter over your lens if your camera is the type that will take one (it will have little screw-posts to hold the filter). Touch your lens as little as possible. And never wash and re-use a lens cleaning cloth, if the cloth gets dirty or starts to smear or streak the lens, throw it away and buy a new cloth.
Lynn November 24, 2007 at 4:05 pm: An eyeglass cleaning kit is not the same as a camera lens cleaning kit. Quality camera lenses are much more delicate and easier to damage than the tough glass or plastic your reading glasses are made from.
Amanda June 18, 2008 at 4:45 pm: It is absolutely critical to have a skylight filter on all of one’s lenses at all times! This way, one will just scratch/damage $15 worth of equipment instead of a couple of hundred (or more).
Carol Newbor October 5, 2009 at 12:55 pm camera submerged: I have 3 camera lens that was submerged in water during the recent flood in GA. My Pentax lens have water in between the two lens that I can not get dry. Any suggestions by anyone would be appreciated. The flood has already cost me $40,000 so any suggestions would help. Or if you know of a cheap place to get it fixed.
jayjay October 21, 2009 at 5:54 am lens submerged: same here, my camera lens got submerged, how can i make sure even tho i think its already dry that its not gonna destroy the lens because maybe there are still residues and stuff. pelase let me know if i have to go to olympus to get my lens cleaned

thanks
jenna February 11, 2010 at 1:45 pm: i have my dads old camera. im trying to restore it on a low budget. one of the lenses has a small stain on it. what can i do to fix it?