How to clean the lens of a SLR

Last updated Jun 24, 2017 787

Photography is a real art, and as well as a good painter must use a very good brush and excellent colors, so a good photographer cannot be separated from having a camera excellent.

Of all the cameras on the market, certainly in recent years, SLRs are the ones that have been most successful ever, largely due to their really excellent value for money.

If you own a SLR, and then we want to avoid that our photos are ruined, totally or partially, from the dirt of the lens, we must necessarily make some minor maintenance. To do this, they are not needed large equipment: a kerchief for glasses, a brush-blower and alcohol or liquid lens wiper. We must therefore learn how to clean the lens of our cameras, and this is the end of this guide that follows will give you all the information you need, then, to work!

1.) First, we need to find a nice work table, as clean as possible, which is large enough to accommodate everything you need: a soft kerchief, a bit of alcohol and the various pieces of our favorite camera. At this point, we start the real cleaning: position yourself in front of the SLR camera body with the lens cover applied, without there being any objective attacked. We clean so the goal (or goals if we have more than one) with the kerchief just moistened with alcohol, making a circular motion and taking care not to touch anything, and I repeat never, the lens with your hands.

2.) Then Use the proper brush-blower to eliminate, through the pump, any and all dust particles still present on the lens, and if there are spots of a certain severity (I hope they are not caked) use a maximum of two drops of the liquid lens wiper and then spread the liquid with the flattened tip of the pen wipe the lens. we can close at this point with the lens cover to prevent the accumulation of another contamination.

3.) For the exchange lens reflex camera with the entry position the lens facing down, in this way will not allow dust to enter the inner areas of the camera. Then quickly joined the two parts (lens and camera body) using the points that are located both on the lens and on the camera body that can be red or white. The whole operation still requires time and patience, then start work only if you have time available, without going in a hurry with the risk of ruining your tools. Good job ..

Make sure you have at hand : A brush-blower, The pen lens cleaner, The lens cleaner, A cloth for eyeglasses.

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