How to Properly Clean Your Camera Lens

Michael Zhang · Apr 14, 2011

Here’s a pretty lengthy video tutorial by the (unofficial) Nikon Help Hotline channel on YouTube teaching how to properly and thoroughly clean a camera lens.

(via Lifehacker)

Gabe Sturdevant

This “helpline” is wrong on nearly everything they publish. It is well known that they give false or misleading information all the time. I do not trust them.
Gabe Sturdevant

Rubbing alcohol will KILL the protective coating on the lens within 6 months. Seen it happen several times. Huff some breath on your lens, and wipe with microfiber cloth. Simple.
http://twitter.com/alflow Alfred Low

Why did it need to be a video?!?
Paul Timon

What’s with the music!?!?!?
Pj

i can’t help but feel videos like this prevent more people from cleaning their lenses than it helps.
Bob Bowne

Are you kidding me. I am sure that the press photographers in Afganistan and Libya would have a TREMENDOUS howl at this video. Please..enough already.
http://twitter.com/bycostello chris costello

so my shirt tail.. not really recemoend then…
bri

that was horrible
http://www.facebook.com/Vinyldutch Ruben Lammerink

Please change the description to “How NOT to properly clean your Camera Lens” don’t use alcohol on your lens!!!!! It will destroy the coating over time.
Jon M

First, why do you need to clean a lens under a filter?? Isn’t that what the filter is for? Second, dust on the front lens doesn’t kill image quality, the photographer can do that on his own. Third, use denatured alchohol; I’ve used it for years with no problems and no residue like rubbing alchohol leaves behind.
Mino

it’s a tune of John Coltrane’s “Summertime”.
http://twitter.com/joakimfj Joakim Fjeldli

Yeah, the alcohol will ruin your lens coating.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5HW3AAWIWC5FHAQPA6DCAO6XDA Keith

Your lens was dirtier after your cleaning process…
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How to Properly Clean Your Camera Lens

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