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Serious question, did I mess up my lens cleaning by wetting the cloth first?
For two summers I was wiping every lens front element with a microfiber I huffed on, and I finally figured out why my shots had a faint haze at f/8. A tech at the counter here in Fresno put a loupe on one of my old primes and showed me the swirl marks from dragging grit around. Now I use a dry brush first, then a drop of Eclipse fluid on a pec pad, never on the glass. What brush do you all keep in your bag for the dry pass?
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ruby_reed4813d ago
Honestly, the swirl marks are probably doing way less harm than you think. A loupe under harsh light makes any coating look wrecked, but most of that stuff never shows up in a real shot, and a little haze at f/8 could just as easily be old glass, internal dust, or how the lens was stored. You wiped with a huffed cloth for two summers and the sky didn't fall, so the guy at the counter maybe sold you a fix for a problem you didn't really have. Half the brushes people carry just push grit around anyway unless you clean them, so a dry pass isn't some magic cure. Shoot a test chart wide open and at f/8 before you swear off huffing forever.
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